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Book Review: Death at the Salon (Daisy Thorne Mystery #2) by Louise R Innes

I really, really enjoyed this book. ‘Death at the Salon’ follows Daisy Thorne, the owner of Ooh La La— a beloved hair salon in their village. As she is locking up the salon for the night she discovers one of her customer lying dead behind her shop, with her missing scissors on the dead woman’s back. To make matters even worse, Daisy becomes the prime suspect in the case. Daisy must find the real…

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Hotel, Motel, Holiday Inn

Rating: E Fandom: Big Shot Pairing: Marvyn Korn/Holly Barrett Word Count: 7900 Tags: 18+, Explicit Sexual Content, Only One Bed, Sharing a Bed, PWP, Vaginal Fingering, Vaginal Sex, Oral Sex, Dirty Talk, Post S1 Summary: Away at a team camp, Holly and Marvyn have to share a hotel room.

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It was a 2-hour bus ride to Westmont College. Well, for Holly and the girls that is. Marvyn decided to drive to the team camp separately. He loved being with the girls and Holly, but 2 hours on a small bus all together? He would much rather enjoy some “Marvyn Time” and drive by himself. It worked out well that way actually; Holly and Marvyn needed their own car to drive to and from campus back to their hotel nearby. The girls were staying on campus, all paired up in dorms. Staying in dorm rooms was a hard pass for Holly and Marvyn, mostly Marvyn. Holly wouldn’t have minded staying in a room on campus but given the choice between sleeping on a hotel-quality, queen-sized mattress or a dorm-quality, twin-sized mattress, she’d pick hotel every time. Marvyn just flat out refused to sleep in a dorm. He loves hotels. Hell, he tried to live in one until his daughter moved in with him. People change his sheets and make the bed for him. There’s complimentary breakfast. What’s not to love about hotels?

Holly could not wait to get off the bus after those 2 hours. One thing about teenage girls is that they love to gossip. Holly witnesses it every day at school, but none of it really ever pertains to her. These girls usually just chat about boys and other girls, but Holly’s ears always perk up when she occasionally overhears the girls talking about their teachers to one another. It’s fun to hear what they think about her colleagues, but sometimes she fears she’s the subject of gossip amongst these girls when they are anywhere else in the school that isn’t Holly’s classroom.

That fear came true on that bus ride when she overheard the girls whispering at the back of the bus. The subject of those hushed words? Holly and Marvyn. It was a big bus, but not big enough. From the front of the bus, Holly could hear just about every word those girls whispered back and forth to one another in the back.

“Emma told me they go out for drinks and dinner all the time,” Destiny murmured to all of the girls leaning into the bus walkway.

“But isn’t she like his only friend?” Louise joked, getting some giggles from the other girls.

“I’m thinking they are a little more than just friends, if you know what I mean,” Samantha mumbled.

Mouse smacked her knee from the seat across from her. “Sam!” she gasped.

“What?” Samantha asked, “You don’t think those two could be hooking up?”

“I’d prefer not to think about that,” Mouse answered, hating the idea of her coaches doing it with each other.

“Guys, what if they are in the same hotel room for this camp?” Olive suggested, feeding into Samantha’s theory. “Maybe that’s why they didn’t want to stay in the dorms.”

Destiny let out a loud gasp at Olive’s suggestion and proceeded to be slapped and shushed by Louise for being too loud. They would all be dead if Holly could hear their conversation.

They had no clue that Holly could actually hear everything they were saying. And she was mortified. Her and Marvyn? What was it with these girls and starting rumors about who’s she’s dating? First, it was Felix, now it’s Marvyn. Sure, she goes out for drinks and dinner with Marvyn a lot. So what? Friends can go out for fun. Not only are they friends… they are colleagues. It’s always been strictly platonic and professional between them, and Holly plans on keeping it that way.

When they finally arrived at Westmont around 9PM, she helped the girls find their dorms and settle in while she waited for Marvyn to get there. Once he got there, Holly said goodnight to the girls and told them they need to get up for the scheduled team breakfast at 8AM in the main campus dining hall.

Marvyn didn’t even bother getting out of his car to say “hi” to the girls once he got there. He texted Holly telling her to walk out to his car, and to hurry up so they could get settled at the hotel.

Holly didn’t say a word during the 10 minutes it took to get to the hotel. Her face was still hot from overhearing the girls suggest that she and Marvyn were a thing. She could feel Marvyn’s curious gaze on her in the car, but she avoided his glances by staring out the window, thinking about a certain thing the girls unknowingly put into her head. Her stomach tightened as the thought of sleeping with Marvyn consumed her mind for the duration of the drive.

Holly started to second guess everything Marvyn did for her. When they got to the hotel, Marvyn rushed to open the door for Holly and get her suitcase out of the back seat. Is that what friends do? Is he just being nice? Holly asked herself, feeling like she was going a bit mad.

Walking up to the front desk, Marvyn greeted the receptionist. “Hi, I have two rooms booked under Korn.”

Holly watched as the woman behind the front desk punched keys on her keyboard. The receptionist started typing faster than before, almost frantic. Holly had no idea it was that hard to find a room reservation.

“Hmm,” the woman started, “I don’t see a reservation under that name. Could it be under a different name, perhaps?”

“Are you sure? Did you spell it right? It’s K-o-r-n. Korn,” Marvyn said, growing impatient. He just wanted to go to sleep. They had a busy few days coming up with the camp, and he needed to be well-rested if he was going to beat all of the other Southern California basketball teams at the camp.

“I’m afraid I don’t see a reservation for you, Mr. Korn.”

“Marvyn, don’t you have the confirmation in your email? You can pull that up on your phone,” Holly suggested, hating that they were causing the receptionist any trouble.

Marvyn pulled up the email confirmation on his phone and held it up to the clerk. “Here’s our confirmation number and reservation details. We have two queen-sized rooms. Three nights.”

The woman pulled the phone toward her, taking a closer look at the email. “Sir, I think there has been a mistake.”

“How could there be a mistake? The confirmation and details are right there,” he snapped, pointing at his phone. Holly elbowed him for snapping at the poor young woman.

“These reservations are for the Holiday Inn Express in Ventura. You’re at the Holiday Inn Express in Santa Barbara.

Holly looked at Marvyn in disbelief. Ventura was almost a half-hour away. She didn’t want to have to drive all the way there and have to commute 30 minutes to and from Westmont for 4 days.

“Well shit,” Marvyn muttered under his breath. This is why he doesn’t stay at anything less than 5-star hotels. This never would have happened if Holly just let him book two rooms at the Hotel Californian. But no, they were “too expensive and luxurious” for only staying 3 nights and spending most of their time at Westmont.

“Do you have two rooms available here?” Marvyn finally asked the woman.

“We’re pretty booked up. I’ll have to check what rooms we have available for 3 nights.”

“You better have some rooms because—”

Holly elbowed him again, sending him a glare that could kill. She turned to the clerk. “Thank you,” she said sincerely, “We’re sorry to cause so much trouble.”

“Oh, you are no trouble at all. It happens more often than you would think, “ the receptionist said as she typed away on her keyboard. Her face sunk. “I’m sorry but all we have available for three nights is one room. It should have two queen beds, but I’ll have to double check—”

“We’ll take it,” Marvyn interjected. He didn’t want to be standing in that lobby any longer. And he certainly did not want to drive all the way to Ventura.

“Marvyn,” Holly turned to him concerned, “We can’t share a room.”

“Well, you can find a ride to Ventura because I’m sure as hell not driving all the way over there.”

This was exactly what she didn’t need right now. She could hardly look Marvyn in the eye after hearing the girls speculate about them being in a relationship. How could she share a room with him? Everything about this was just mortifying.

She sighed. “Fine. I guess it’s not that big a deal” She took one of the keys the woman set out in front of them.

Holly’s jaw dropped to the floor when Marvyn opened the door for her to walk into the room. She could not believe what she was seeing. Was there seriously only one goddamn bed? Just when she thought this couldn’t get any worse.

“Now you have to be fucking kidding me,” Marvyn said when he finally walked through the doorway, carrying both of their suitcases. “I thought she said it would be two queens.”

“Well, you did cut her off and take the room before she could double check,” Holly retorted, clearly annoyed. She walked further into the room, setting her purse down on the polka dot armchair. The room was fairly big and had a great view of Santa Barbara.

Marvyn followed her into the room, still dragging their luggage along. Holly could still hardly look at him, so she busied herself with looking around the room.

“Did you want the bathroom first?” Marvyn asked coolly, breaking the awkward silence that settled in the room.

“Yeah, if you don’t mind. I need to wash up after sitting on that old bus for 2 hours. I’ll be quick,” Holly said as she opened up her suitcase to grab her pajamas and toiletry bag. She practically ran to the bathroom, shutting the door behind her.

She set her bag and pajamas down on the counter and took a deep breath. How does he seem so unfazed by the giant bed-shaped elephant in the room? Holly thought as she stared at herself in the mirror. The fact that the receptionist “gave him the wrong information” seemed to affect him more than the fact that they were sharing a room and possibly sharing a bed. That is, if he doesn’t do the gentlemanly thing and offer to sleep on the floor or the chair. She sure as hell wasn’t sleeping anywhere besides that bed.

Holly was prepared to be in the comfort of her own room, so all she packed for nighttime attire was a pair of skimpy blue sleep shorts and a tank top. That would have been fine had things gone as planned and she had a room to herself, but Marvyn was going to be seeing a lot of leg, a lot more than would be considered appropriate. She shoved the thought out of her mind and got changed.

After she finished up washing her face and brushing her teeth, she knocked on the door. “Are you decent?” she called out from the bathroom.

“Yeah, you’re good to come out,” Marvyn responded. Holly took a deep, sobering breath as her hand hovered over the doorknob. She wished she could tell herself it’s just one night, but it’s three nights. He’ll take the chair or the floor, I’m sure, Holly tried to reassure herself.

When she finally mustered the courage to walk out into the main room, she’s stopped dead in her tracks upon seeing Marvyn. It took everything in her not to stare at him perched on the edge of the bed dressed in green boxers and a plain white undershirt that hugged his torso. She averted her gaze and quickly crossed her arms in front of her as she walked to her suitcase, a failed attempt to hide her hardening nipples. She wished she could blame it on the cold air in the room, but it’s really just from seeing Marvyn so… undressed. She hated the girls for putting the idea of them together in her mind. Yes, he’s a very attractive man, but she’s never thought about him in any sexual way. Now, it was nearly all she could think about, thanks to the girls. She was in deep shit.

And Marvyn was completely fucked. He hoped she didn’t notice him practically gawking at her when she came out of the bathroom, his eyes caught on the sight of her hardening nipples through her thin tank top. And those shorts. They were sinful is what they were. She was showing off more leg than he could handle. He was used to Holly wearing tight athletic clothing at practices and games. He knew she had a great body. But seeing her so bare made his mind run wild. He watched as she bent forward to put her clothes back into her suitcase. Her shorts were so damn small he could just barely see the black lace panties she was wearing underneath. He tore his eyes away. What the fuck is the matter with me? He scolded himself, thoroughly disturbed by his sudden sexual urges for his friend – his colleague. Now half hard, he finally excused himself to the bathroom.

I’m a man. I can’t help it, he repeated to himself over and over as he stared at his reflection. He couldn’t go back out there like that. The best he could do was will his erection away. There was no way he could discretely “take care” of it with Holly just several feet away.

He brushed his teeth and splashed his face with cold water, trying to distract himself from images of Holly’s legs and the swell of her breasts. As much as he wanted to sleep on that damn bed, getting in bed with her was no longer an option. He would have to offer to sleep on the chair or the floor.

Still half hard, he sucked in a breath before exiting the bathroom. He saw her sitting up on the right side of the bed reading a book. “I’ll sleep on the chair,” he announced.

“Are you sure?” Holly said out of courtesy.

“It’s either that or the floor. Which do you think I should choose?”

 “Whatever will hurt your back less, old man,” Holly joked, the banter coming back to them both easily, temporarily distracting them from the sexual tension that’s built between them in just one night.

“Don’t make me share that bed with you,” he said with a cocky smirk.

“Sleep on the chair. Maybe you will snore less sitting up.”

“I don’t snore,” he countered, slightly offended by her assumption.

“Yeah right. Just sleep on the chair. Keep the snoring to a minimum.” She went back to reading her book. She silently cheered that he offered to let her have the bed to herself. After her inappropriate thoughts about him that night, she wasn’t sure she would be able to keep her hands to herself if he hopped into bed with her.

He grabbed a pillow from the bed and tried to make himself comfortable in the big polka dot chair. “Am I good to turn off the lamp?” Holly asked once it seemed Marvyn got in a comfortable position.

“Yeah,” she heard him grunt as he shifted once more.

Close to 30 minutes went by of more shifting and grunting from the chair on the other side of the room. There was no falling asleep with how noisy he was being. She couldn’t tell if he was genuinely uncomfortable or if he was trying to get her to pity him and offer to switch places or let him sleep in the bed with her. “You good over there?” she whispered into the darkness of the room.

“Just fine,” he responded, feigning sincerity. It was probably the most uncomfortable chair he had ever sat in. It was lumpy and stiff, making noise with every move he made. Not to mention, his cock was still hard, his mind ridden with inappropriate and unprofessional thoughts of Holly

Holly hated what she was about to say next, knew she was probably going to regret it, want to take it back. But she really needed some good sleep tonight, so she went for it. “Just come sleep in the bed, Marvyn. You are driving me nuts with all your moving around.”

“You’re just trying to get in bed with me, aren’t you?” he teased, knowing that would push her buttons.

“Shut up, Marvyn. We’re both adults. We can share a bed without it being weird. Unless you would rather sleep on the floor?”

He didn’t even respond. He got up from the chair, holding his already sore back. God, am I really an old man? He said to himself silently, thinking about Holly’s joke from earlier.

“Just don’t hog the covers,” Holly said as she turned her back to him. She felt the mattress dip beside her, and a twinge of panic rose within her, her heart started to race. She hadn’t shared a bed with a man in a very long time. And it’s been even longer since she’s gotten laid. She shook the thought out of her head. She was absolutely not getting laid tonight. She was in a bed with Marvyn for Christ’s sake. He’s both a friend and a colleague. They couldn’t afford to ruin that. And did she really want to fuck the same man that Ms. Goodwin has? God, no.

Marvyn was wide awake. The twitch of his cock in his boxers was starting to get somewhat painful. He really shouldn’t be this goddamn horny; it had only been a couple months since he and Maggie were having sex. Granted, they only did so a few times. It took a lot longer than he expected to get past 2nd base with her. Something about “wanting to take it slow” and “doing it right”. Oh, he wanted to do it all right. Maggie was the first woman he’d been with since his ex-wife, and making the bald man cry each night wasn’t as satisfying as he hoped it would be. He wished he could fist himself right then and there, desperate to get rid of his uncomfortable and awkward hard on.

Holly also lay there wide awake, the silence too loud to even think about falling asleep. Desperate to get rid of the suffocating silence, she spoke, “This is so cliché, isn’t it?”

“What is?” Marvyn asked, genuinely unsure of what she was talking about.

“The whole two co-workers forced to share a bed thing. I thought this type of shit just happened in books to get the two main characters together,” she said matter-of-factly, not realizing until after she finished her sentence just how suggestive it was.

“Don’t get any ideas, Coach Barrett,”

“Oh, please. As if. Goodnight Marvyn.”

“Night,” she heard him whisper. Finally feeling relaxed, she dozed off to sleep to the sound of his breathing.

Marvyn woke just a few hours later, feeling pressure on his thigh. Dazed and confused, he looked up at the alarm clock next to his head, a green-lit 3:00 AM staring back at him. He turned back to see what was pressed up against his thigh. Lo and behold, Holly had thrown her leg over his thigh while they were sleeping. Pft, “as if” Marvyn silently mocked her words from earlier. His arm was trapped under her waist, ghosting over the swell of her ass. He instantly regretted lifting his other hand up to rest on her thigh, as he almost instantly got hard again.

They were hardly under the covers anymore, having kicked them off in their sleep. In the dimmed light coming from the streetlights outside, Marvyn could watch Holly as she slept. She really was a beautiful woman. He was surprised she hadn’t found anybody after her divorce. Any man would be lucky to have her. Not only was she incredibly good-humored and down-to-earth, but she also was just fucking sexy. He’d never really looked at her that way before that night, but it was hard not to when her breasts were practically falling out of her tank top and her shorts left next to nothing to the imagination.

He was abruptly shaken from his thoughts when he started to feel movement beside him. Not just any movement. No. The beautiful blonde woman beside him had started to rock her hips into his thigh. This can’t be happening. She has to be dreaming. I have to be dreaming right now Marvyn thought in a panic.

Her movements against the bare skin of his thigh grew faster, and she let out a soft moan, almost too quiet to hear. He started to feel how wet she was through her shorts. Marvyn’s heart was about to beat out of his chest, as he felt his cock twitch for what seemed like the millionth time that night, just aching to be touched. He had no clue what to do. Was he supposed to wake her up? Let her unconsciously get off on his thigh? There was no right way to go about it.

Holly slowly slipped into consciousness. She assumed the dream she was having must have been great based on how wet she was, slowly rocking against the thigh pressed firmly between her legs. It felt too good to stop. She tilted her hips back, seeking more friction against her clit. She sighed at the sensation. She became aware of the hands splayed on her lower back and on her thigh. The hardness pressed against her inner thigh then caught her attention.

Holy fuck! She thought frantically, suddenly remembering she went to sleep next to Marvyn last night. Before the panic set in, she felt the hand on her back move lower, resting firmly on her ass, which was only half covered by her sleep shorts. She nearly gasped when the hips underneath her began to rock into her thigh. She pressed her forehead against his shoulder as she continues her movements.

They both knew the other was awake, but they didn’t say a word, and they didn’t stop; they just kept grinding, getting each other off. Marvyn squeezed the swell of her ass through her shorts, his hand strong and firm against the silky fabric of her shorts and her soft skin. His fingers moved towards the edge of her shorts, daring to go further. She began rocking into him a bit harder, which he took as permission to go further, letting his fingers slip beneath the fabric of her shorts and run across the smoothness of her skin. His thumb brushed the lacy fabric of the black thong he got a sneak peek of earlier. He slid his other hand up her thigh to palm her other cheek, starting to guide her movements into him.

They stayed like that, grinding into one another for a good few minutes until Marvyn grew impatient, he had to touch her, feel her. He slowly moved his hand down her thigh, stopping at her knee which rested on his waist. Lifting her knee off of him, he encouraged her to spread her legs for him. Sliding his hand down her inner thigh, he turned his head to whisper in her ear. “Is this okay?” he asked, not wanting to push.

“Fuck, yes. Please,” she begged with a whisper. Just fucking touch me already! she wanted to yell at him.

He slid his hand past the waistband of her shorts, lifting up her tank top to rub the taut skin across her stomach, finally resting his hand on her breast, thumbing her rock-hard nipple. He was driving her insane. She lifted her hips, a silent beg for him to touch her where she needed it most.  He took the hint, trailing his hand back down her stomach, tight and coiled with anticipation. His movements became hesitant, worried about taking things too far, ruining their relationship as they knew it.

She felt his hand stop just above the waistband of her shorts. She wondered if he was unsure about touching her or just being a tease. Hoping it was the latter, she lifted her head up to whisper in his ear, “Don’t be such a tease.”

“Are you sure about his?” he asked innocently.

Hearing the nerves in his voice, she reached her hand up to rest on his, squeezing his hand to assure him how much she wanted this, how much she needed this. She guided his hand below her waistband. His hand ghosted her core through the fabric of her panties. She slid her hand up his arm to feel his biceps. He had great arms. She ached to see if his chest was just as toned and firm as his arms.

He could feel the heat of her through the thin lace fabric covering her core. Judging by how wet she was already, Holly clearly wanted this just as much as he did. The soft sighs in his ear egging him on. A rush of confidence coursed through him, realizing just how much of an effect he had on her by barely touching her. Hell, she was gasping and grinding on him in her sleep. Which could easily be from having not gotten laid in a while, but Marvyn would rather think it was because of him entirely.

He always prided himself on being particularly good at sex. He got a lot of practice in college; girls practically threw themselves at him. And he and Caren had a pretty fun and adventurous sex life for most of their marriage. He knew his way around a woman’s body: how it worked, how it reacted, how to manipulate it. And in that moment with Holly, he wanted to cherish every inch of her body, to pay attention to each subtle detail of her enjoyment…for hours.

It surprised him. This sudden sexual desire for his colleague – his assistant coach, technically his subordinate. They did do everything couples do, besides sex of course (until now). They went out to dinner, got drinks together. They trusted and respected each other, wanted the best for the other. If he had this close of a connection with any other woman, Marvyn was sure he would develop feelings for her. But this was Holly. They worked together. They were friends, yes, but their relationship was professional and strictly platonic. Whatever mentor/mentee, co-worker relationship and friendship they had was a whole lot more interesting for the both of them than some dating scenario. He always figured a crude, yet expert sexual encounter would ruin what they had together. But now, he wasn’t so sure. He wanted her. All of her.

His earlier hesitation quickly disappeared. He swiftly dipped his fingers beneath the lace of her underwear, ghosting his fingers over her wet center, teasing her. Her breath grew jagged with anticipation. His touch was a mere whisper on her skin, but it made her thighs tremble. There was no holding in the gasp that escaped her when he swiped through her slick with his deft fingers. He found her clit with his middle finger, rubbing it in slow, deliberate circles, eliciting a breathy moan from her.

The position they were in wasn’t exactly comfortable, at least not for Marvyn. His right arm was still being crushed under her, and him lying on his back beside her wasn’t the most ideal if he wanted to give her the best finger-fuck of her life.

She was pleased when he moved to hover over her, basking under the weight of him above her. He was so much bigger than her. He was practically engulfing her.

“I want to see you,” he whispered, reaching to turn on one of the bedside lamps. It illuminated the room just right, not too bright, not too dark, just light enough to tear away the shadows on her cheeks and restore the glimmer in her bright blue eyes.

His right hand, still half-asleep from being under her for so long, moved to hold down her hip, keeping her still. She could already feel the bruises forming from how tight he was gripping her. The thought of him leaving a mark on her sent shockwaves of excitement through her.

He slid his other hand out from her sleep shorts, moving once more to set up on his knees. He brought his hand to Holly’s mouth, still wet with her slick.

“Open,” he directed, pressing his fingers against her lips. She obeyed, opening her mouth, and sucking on his fingers covered with her own arousal. She flicked her tongue against his knuckles, tasting herself, faintly, and feeling the roughness of his skin. He groaned and dragged his hand down to rest on her neck. No pressure. No real grasp or hold. But it stole her breath just the same.

He hadn’t even kissed her yet, something about that step feeling far too intimate. Somehow kissing her would be too far for Marvyn but rubbing her clit and letting her suck on his fingers isn’t too intimate.

Eager to feel his lips on her, Holly moved from fisting the bedsheets to fisting Marvyn’s t-shirt, pulling him down toward her. He kissed her then. It was heated, passionate, intimate. His hand still rested on her neck, his other gripping her hip, pushing her into the mattress. His tongue prodded at the seam of her lips, eager to explore her mouth.

That kiss may have been the best she’d ever had. She ran her fingers through his hair, using her grip to pull him closer to her, deepening the kiss. She lifted her hips up into him, searching for the friction her clit was craving. Her movements matched perfectly with Marvyn as he shifted his hips into hers. He was wedged between her legs, hot and hard, exactly where she wanted him. He'd be able to thrust into her right now if they weren't wearing clothes. Why the fuck are we still dressed? Holly screamed silently in her head.

The heat of his body on top of her was electrifying. She fisted his t-shirt sleeves in an attempt to keep him there, addicted to the feeling of being trapped underneath him.

His lips traveled down her jaw. He tilted her head to the side, giving him access to kiss her throat. She melted under him, a loud whimper escaping her. His mouth left a trail of hot, wet kisses down her throat, across her shoulder, and along her collarbone. Being kissed had never felt so perfect, so hot.

“You won’t be needing this,” he said, lifting her top over her head and throwing it somewhere off the bed. She loved seeing him take control like this. Outside of the bedroom was a different story. She hated when he belittled her, undermined her, told her what to do. It was infuriating. But in the bedroom, under his touch, she’d do nearly anything he asked of her.

He took hold of one of her now bare breasts, the textured skin of his thumb circling her nipple made her shudder. He lowered his head to give her other breast some attention, taking her nipple in his mouth. Her hands flew to the back of his head, holding him against her, never wanting him to stop.

“Marvyn,” she sighed. It was the first word she had spoken in nearly 10 minutes.

He continued in his path down her body, kissing down the taut lines of her stomach, setting tiny little fires across her body.

“You won’t be needing these either,” he repeated, tugging her sleep shorts and panties down her incredible legs. He couldn’t wait to be between her perfect thighs, tasting her, exploring her.

“Please,” she whimpered, guiding his head down where she wanted him most.

“Patience, Coach,” he teased. She felt him smile against her inner thigh as he kissed her there. She changed her mind. He was infuriating in bed too. Such a fucking tease.

Without warning, he licked her bottom to top, stopping at her clit to suck on it, humming into her, making her jolt as if she’d been shocked.

“Fuck!” She bucked her hips into his face. He grasped her inner thighs, pushing her in the mattress, holding her still, and spreading her further apart for him. He slid his tongue between her folds, tasting her wetness, before he found her clit again, locking his mouth around it, sucking hard. Her body almost caught on fire when he slid two fingers into her, pumping into her slowly. She had never been eaten out like this before. She had no idea it could feel this fucking good. Her ex-husband would do the bare minimum, never really caring if she got off or not. He didn’t explore her like this. He didn’t take his time with her the way Marvyn was, learning what she liked, noting every move that made her squirm and moan. She was sure Marvyn had to have watched some sort of online how-to video or something because there was just no way this man could use his tongue and his mouth so skillfully. He devoured her cunt like it was his birthright, as if he'd been programmed to put his mouth precisely here and there and lick her till she screamed. And he was clearly enjoying it too. He was moaning for fucks sake.

His name fell from her lips once more as she lifted her hips to the rhythm of his licks, seeking release. “Patience,” he repeated himself. He slid his fingers out of her, replacing them with his tongue. He felt the suck of her cunt on his tongue as he fucked her with it, imagining how incredible it would feel around his cock, which was still strained against the fabric of his boxers, leaking and painfully hard. But this wasn’t about him. At least not then. He wanted to make her cum, feel her release around his tongue and taste her before he fucked her.

“Okay, Holly,” he breathed against her, “You can let go now.” He dove back into her, placing his thumb over her clit and rubbing concentrated circles. He lapped at her folds and brought his other hand down to finger her.

“Marvyn!” she cried out desperately. The stimulation was almost too much. The pleasure was intense, earth-shatteringly so. It consumed her entire body from head to toe. Heaven and torture at the exact same time.

“I know. I know. Just let go for me,” he encouraged. She whined when he pushed another finger into her and curled it, reaching for the spot inside her that he knew would send her over the edge. He continued sucking and flicking at her clit, showing no mercy as he tore her apart, fucking her with his hand and mouth until she was screaming his name and banging her thighs against his ears. Her desperate screams did nothing to halt his movements as he guided her through her orgasm before pulling his fingers out and snaking his tongue into her, tasting her release.

He came up for air, finding her breathing heavy, eyes closed, with her head thrown back into the pillows. When she managed to catch her breath and regain a semblance of lucidity, she lifted her head to watch him begin a trail of wet kisses down her inner thigh. It was obscene. The sight of him between her legs, his chin dripping with her arousal. When he caught her gaze, he couldn’t help the smug smirk that graced his lips, satisfied with the sight of her almost completely wrecked without even fucking her yet.

He rose above her again to slot his mouth against hers. She let his tongue enter her mouth immediately, sucking her taste off of it. He trailed kisses across her cheek to her ear, sucking and nibbling on it for a short moment. “I want to feel you on my cock.”

“What the hell are you waiting for?” she asked breathlessly. He lifted himself off the bed, and she whimpered at the loss of his weight on top of her.

He was still far too overdressed, so he pulled his shirt up over his head. She lifted herself up on her elbows, getting a better look at the show he was putting on before her.

His cock still ached inside his boxers, heavy and hard, desperate to be inside her. When he finally set it free from its confines, it sprung straight up. She gasped at the sight of it, a flicker of nervousness flashed across her face. She had figured he’d be pretty well-endowed. He’s Marvyn Korn. Always bigger and better than everyone. But it was intimidating. She hadn’t been with anyone in a long time, and none of the toys she used at home did justice to the size of him.

“Protection…?” he said suddenly, snapping her out of her thoughts.

“I’m on the pill. I’m clean. Do you have a condom?”

He nodded and turned to walk toward his suitcase, giving Holly a nice view of his perfectly tight ass. He pulled out his wallet, fishing for the single condom he left in there from when he was dating Maggie.

“What are you? 17? Keeping a condom in your wallet?” she laughed.

“Ha. Ha,” he said sarcastically, rolling his eyes at her. He took his time opening the foil package and sliding the condom down his impressive length.

“You better hurry up. You should never keep a lady waiting.” When he looked up at her, he saw her leaning back against the pillows, legs spread, touching herself. Marvyn nearly came in his boxers at the sight of her rubbing her own cunt, still swollen and wet. She was fucking beautiful.

“Did I say you could touch yourself?” he asked, crawling back onto the bed. Her fingers continued to move in practiced circles around her clit.

“I didn’t realize I needed your permission,” she challenged boldly, lifting her head slightly to look him in the eye. The look of lust and anticipation in her eyes went straight to his cock. He stroked himself through the latex barrier of the condom as he knelt between her thighs, trying to give himself some relief.

Her movements came to a halt. He watched her in awe as she brought her own fingers up to her mouth, licking them clean, humming a soft moan at the taste of herself.

“God, you’re filthy,” he commented. He rubbed the tip of his cock against her clit.

She’d had enough of the teasing, enough of the waiting. She wanted him inside her so fucking badly. “Just fuck me already,” she pleaded, reaching up to run her hands down his hairy chest and abs, confirming they were just as perfect as his arms.

“Filthy and eager,” he noted aloud.

“Marvyn, I swear to God—”             He thrust into her without warning, and she cried out his name. Holding still inside her, he let her adjust to the size of him. The way she felt around him was unreal. She was hot, wet, and so fucking tight. He moaned as he felt her cunt squeeze his cock as she willed her body to accustom his size.

He leaned down on top of her, smothering her body with his own. “Fuck,” he groaned in her ear, “You feel so fucking good, Holly.” He sucked lightly at the skin on her neck, tasting it’s the sweat that started to bead up there.

“Christ,” she groaned, throwing her head back, clinging to his back, leaving crescent-shaped marks on his skin from her nails, “So fucking… so big… so good,” she panted out incoherently as he increased the pace of his hips.

“You like getting fucked like this?” he grumbled in her ear, bringing his right hand to rest on her throat, not applying pressure, but making it known he could if he wanted to.

“Yes,” she managed, almost too quiet for Marvyn to hear.

“I like you like this. Taking my cock. Not putting up a fight,” he voiced lowly, biting at her ear.

She loved the dirty talk, but she hated how much his words turned her on. She lived to put up a fight, never one to accept being demeaned by someone else, especially a man. But having Marvyn so big and strong and sexy on top of her, dominating her, it was incredible, something she could only dream of.

She whined when he pulled out of her. He flipped her onto her stomach, gripped her hips, sure to leave bruises in the shape of his fingertips. Her arms were splayed in front of her, and her cheek pressed against the hotel bed sheets as he dragged her hips up to meet him. He positioned himself at her entrance, pushing her legs apart so she was wide open for him. He slammed into her. The sound of his low groans and slapping of skin on skin was so obscene it nearly forced her them both to come undone.

“Marvyn,” she breathed. He just barely heard her.

He fisted her hair, pulling back just hard enough so that she was looking back over her shoulder at him. “That’s it,” he praised, “I love the sound of my name on your lips. I love hearing you lose it for me.”

“God, Marvyn,” she gasped in between moans, loving the verbal praise, wanting more.

“You take me so well,” he grunted, “Like you were made for me, for my cock.” The words rolled out of his mouth before he could even register what he was saying. But he watched and took note of the way a smile crept to her lips and the way her walls clenched around his cock with each word – she got off on it. This new discovery egged him on. He pulled her body up against him, holding her to him by the base of her throat. “Fuck, Holly. I don’t know how I’m supposed to ever stop fucking you,” he growled in her ear.

“Then don’t,” she panted matter-of-factly. Her answer surprised him. He wasn’t expecting her to even respond to him with anything besides a moan. The implications of her response made his head spin. Did she want to do this again? He thought to himself hopefully.

Her head fell back on his shoulder. She brought her hands up to grope her breasts, tweak each nipple between her fingers. “I need you to touch me,” she begged.

“Ask. Nicely,” he growled, punctuation each word with a thrust into her swollen cunt.

“Marvyn,” she let out a sigh so sexy it would put a fucking pornstar out of business, ”Please touch me. I’m so close.” She squeezed her eyes shut, feeling a familiar coil tighten in her stomach.

“Are you gonna cum for me?”

“Yes, Marvyn, for fuck’s sake, touch me. Please. Let me cum all over you.” She was desperate for release.

Satisfied with her desperate pleas, he released his hand from her throat, moving it down to rub circles over her clit. When her legs began to shake, Marvyn fucked into her with a new urgency.

She cried out, screaming his name, her orgasm ripping through her with an intensity she had never experienced before. Her body went limp, relying on him to hold her up against him. His hand was still rubbing her clit as he fucked into her sensitive, overstimulated cunt. She hissed, pushing his hand away, the electric shocks pulsing through her body were just too fucking much.

“Come on, Marvyn,” she encouraged with what little energy she had left. “You fill me up so good. Please cum for me.” As dominant as he was with her, he got off on the praise too, his hips slamming into her harder and sloppier, chasing his own orgasm.

“God, Holly. The things… fuck…you do to me.” He was so gone, the feeling of his impending release leaving his brain fried.

“Show me, Marvyn,” she whispered huskily, “Please. For me.”

His head fell back, biting his lip to fight the loud groan that wanted to escape him. He paused deep inside her as he climaxed. He nearly blacked out; the force of his orgasm stronger than he’s had in a very long time.

He held onto the condom as he slowly pulled out of her. He got up from the bed, his legs unsteady, and walked to the bathroom to dispose of the condom. He eyed the clean washcloths on the bathroom counter as he was walking out, grabbing one and wetting it a little in case Holly needed it to wipe herself off. Ever the gentleman.

But when he walked back into the room, he found Holly already fast asleep. Not wanting to wake her, he left the small towel on her bedside table. Before turning off the lamp, he took a moment to study her face, blissful, beautiful, and glowing. After turning off the light, he climbed into bed next to her. He kissed her temple before turning on his side to let sleep claim him.

When they both woke to their alarms a few hours later, things were…somewhat awkward between them. They danced around each other as they got ready for their day of camp with the girls, neither of them wanting to have that conversation, wanting instead to pretend that what happened was just some crazy sex dream for the both of them in order to avoid dealing with how it changed their relationship, their partnership, their friendship.

Holly looked at herself in the bathroom mirror, traced her fingers along the bruises he left on her hips and her neck. Dear God, he left fucking hickeys on her neck. She covered what she could with what little makeup she had brought on this trip. The girls won’t even notice, she thought wishfully.

They did in fact notice. Not only did they notice the poorly covered-up marks on her neck, but they also noticed the slight limp in her walk when she arrived to the camp with Marvyn.

“Looks like you guys owe me 10 bucks,” Samantha bragged to the other starters sitting at the table for breakfast.

“How do you even know they did it?” Louise questioned.

“Well, she did do a pretty terrible job at hiding those bruises on her neck,” Destiny commented.

“Wait, he left bruises on her?!” Mouse said a little too loudly, genuinely concerned.

The entire table shushed her.

“They’re hickeys, Mouse. Duh,” Samantha said. “Those two definitely got together.”

“She is kinda limping a bit, not gonna lie,” Destiny observed with a laugh. Louise shushed her, slapping her on the shoulder.

“I kind of hope you’re right, Sam,” Olive chimed in, “It’s kind of cute, like right out of a movie. Coach and assistant coach fall in love…”

“Bang in a hotel room while away at team camp,” Destiny continued, met with another hit on the shoulder from Louise.

“Guys, look,” Samantha whispered urgently, nodding her head towards the breakfast buffet.

The girls all zipped their heads around to see what Samantha was pointing at. They watched as Holly and Marvyn stepped through the buffet line together, side by side, with Marvyn’s hand resting on Holly’s lower back.

“How much more proof do you need?” Samantha asked. “Pay up!”

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435. Daily Press, August 1, 1980

Okay, so originally, I was going to do a bit on each August 1st of the 1980s using my local newspaper, Daily Press. There was so much intrigue and drama just for 1980 alone. 

Don’t put off shoveling the walk. Your wife might sue you. 

“we smoke dope and drink alcohol until 4am!”

If the term “ooh, so edgy” was around in 1980, this dude would be it.

I had never heard of this place in Portsmouth before, so I looked it up. They closed just a few years later, in 1985.

How is that couch comfortable. They still sell that couch for $850. A similar desk costs about $780 today. geez louise. The Coliseum Mall location lasted well into the 90s. 

I made this one on the website and it wound up being nearly $1500. Maybe since I work in a library and I’m broke all the time, that seems so expensive.

and they were right! Here’s a nice history on the K Cars from Chrysler. (another one here)

Dang, my Newmarket North Mall history is rusty, I think this later became K&K toys (oof awful name), and then KayBee. Then dead in the mid 90s like the remainder of the mall. But look at that sweet, sweet Newmarket North logo. 

...is it just me or do those hatchback Chevys already look old and beat up on the lot?

~merica~

sure enough, L.A.’s flag flew in Moscow.

Days before this baseball player, J. R. Richard was about to have a stroke, the media didn’t believe his complaint of a “dead arm”. Maybe because I was in a mood the day I made this screencaps due to the Olympics, but man I had a lot of Simone Biles feels reading this. The way some pundits tore her up last week.

This next story is just straight out of Matlock or something.  A stagehand threw Hagnes down an airshaft after a confrontation inside an elevator during intermission. 1 Last I could see, he’s been denied parole every two years since 2001. 2

Soo, this Sheraton in Hampton was torn down last year after being downgraded to a Quality Inn and then becoming abandoned for years. A few days/weeks/i forgot after it was torn down rats began appearing at the Target across the street! The food section had to be shut down for two weeks.  There were rumors that the rats came from the old hotel, but the city manager said “there was no evidence of that”. 3

It seems like back then, there were way more fun things to do at night in Hampton. I mean a seafood buffet at a fancy hotel.

When Hampton first got Steak and Ale, it had to be called Jolly Fox due to some Virginia law about not having alcohol in a restaurants name. 

Sup!

Guess what Milton. Nobody is going to be caught dead wearing that visor. I looked up the 127 Fox Hill Road location and looks like it was where Kindercare was when I was a kid?? Um. ok.

stupid question time, why was the dentist buying gold? Was the receptionist assessing the gold? Was the dentist doing it in-between patients?

Finally, I just wanted to share some dreamy lookin’ apartment ads. 

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1. Shipp, E. R. “CONFESSION DETAILS GIVEN AS OPERA MURDER TRIAL STARTS.” The New York Times, April 28, 1981, sec. New York. https://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/28/nyregion/confession-details-given-as-opera-murder-trial-starts.html.

2. Hughes, Bill. “Even Model NYS Inmates Face Steep Barriers to Parole.” City Limits, September 17, 2014. https://citylimits.org/2014/09/17/even-model-nys-inmates-face-steep-barriers-to-parole/.

3. Sparks, Lisa Vernon. “Rat Invasion Has Kept the Hampton Target from Selling Food for 2 Weeks.” dailypress.com. April 14, 2021. https://archive.is/SftTG

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Queer Art, Gay Pride, and the Stonewall Riots—50 Years Later

My first forays into the Lower East Side of Manhattan began in 1972. I was an eccentric Black 17-year-old from Montreal, wearing eyeliner, looking for my flock. I arrived after the Stonewall Riots to a world of off-off-Broadway theatrical characters. It wasn’t until 1976 that I would firmly transplant myself to the Lower East Side with plans to pursue my vision of life as a poet and artist.

It’s been 50 years since Stonewall. In our new age of corporate marketing, the annual Pride March has become a celebration of pride without anger, as if we need not continue fighting for our lives, our civil and human rights. How would our ongoing struggle be portrayed in the various anniversary exhibitions on view in New York: “Art after Stonewall: 1969–1989” at the Leslie-Lohman Museum and the Grey Art Gallery, and “Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall” at the Brooklyn Museum.

Lyle Ashton Harris, Americas, 1987–88/2007. Courtesy of the artist, Salon 94, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum / Art Resource, NY.

I was 14 years old at the time of the riot in June 1969, when patrons of the Stonewall Inn, a mafia-run gay bar in Greenwich Village, fought back against law enforcement’s oppressive bullying. I was living in Montreal, a place that was progressively liberated. Amendments to the Criminal Code to relax laws against homosexuality were proposed by then-Justice Minister Pierre Trudeau in 1967, two years before Stonewall launched gay rights into the spotlight in the United States. The bill to decriminalize homosexuality was passed in Canada in 1969, and likely overshadowed any press of Stonewall in my world.

Due to my delayed landing in New York in 1972, I’d missed that year’s annual commemoration of Stonewall. In the years that followed, I have memories of throngs of folks gravitating west on the last Sunday in June for the Gay Liberation Marches. I rarely followed. I wasn’t interested in the mob mentality of marches or parades; I preferred avoiding them altogether.

Peter Hujar, Gay Liberation Front Poster, 1970. Courtesy of the Leslie-Lohman Museum.

Diana Davies, Gay Rights Demonstrations, Albany, NY, 1971. © The New York Public Library.

The first march was a protest for civil and human rights; anyone could join in off the streets. Today the parade has been taken over by corporate-sponsored floats that tout how wonderful it is to be gay. Onlookers can no longer participate—railings guard the long line of floats. Considering the unequal society we still live in, this is shameful. Whatever liberation we feel we’ve won in our post-Stonewall age of illusion reminds me of what the transgender activist Sylvia Rivera had to say in a 1995 interview, clipped in Sasha Wortzel’s 2018 video, This is an Address, on view in the Brooklyn Museum show: “Fight for something and stop being comfortable.” We’re still at war.

There’s a suggestion that the tide may be turning. This year there are plans for concurrent marches. The nonprofit Heritage of Pride will make a loop from the Flatiron District to Stonewall and up to Chelsea with its sponsored floats behind an impenetrable wall of police barriers. A second parade, organized by the Reclaim Pride Coalition, will follow the path of the original march—without barriers or corporate floats—to refocus our demand for civil rights.

Andy Warhol, Ladies and Gentlemen, 1975. © 2018 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

The Leslie-Lohman show spans the 1970s, the period covering my early introduction to the Lower East Side, where I still live today. For a brief period in the mid-’90s, I lived on Fifth Avenue, situated on Manhattan’s East/West divide. I never felt comfortable on this border. The ethnically diverse East Village was always preferable to the homogenous commercialization of the West Village. With the exception of occasional visits to the West Side piers or visits to the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop on Christopher Street, where my first chapbook of poems was distributed, I rarely crossed over. Marsha P. Johnson would hang out on Christopher Street. I met her on the Lower East Side in 1972, when she was rehearsing with the Hot Peaches.

Ann Patricia Meredith, Lesbian Physique, Gay Games II/Triumph In ‘86 San Francisco, CA, 1986, from “A Different Drummer,” 1970–90. ©annpmeredith.com 6.1986.

During this time, drag and queer performance art might appear out on the street. The late performance artist Stephen Varble is represented in the show in two photographic portraits by Greg Day and Peter Hujar. By chance, I witnessed some of Varble’s antics on West Broadway in the mid-’70s. On the weekends he would arrive to SoHo in a limo to then tour the streets in his elaborate costumes.

Then there’s a 1970 poster by Martin Wong advertising the Cockettes, a group of theatrical drag personas—a big disappointment as far as performance from what I remember���who nonetheless left an indelible impression on what queer could look like. Without the glittered beards and eccentric drag of the Cockettes or Stephen Varble, would there ever have been the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence? All of their camp aesthetics were foregrounded by Jack Smith’s earlier 1963 movie Flaming Creatures, which is not included in the exhibition. The color film’s graphic depiction of queer sexuality is canonized in gay history.

Peter Hujar, Daniel Ware (Cockette), 1971. © 1987 The Peter Hujar Archive LLC. Courtesy of Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.

For the most part, the show largely presents documentary photography, portraiture, and archival materials that highlight what has always been visible. The prominence of these pictures had me wondering why there isn’t more work included by artists that took on the spirit of the post-Stonewall era to make more interpretive creative statements about being queer.

We had always been in the picture, but in the post-Stonewall era, unabashedly so.

What is recovered from this period in photography, though, will live on for generations. Photographers like Robert Mapplethorpe, Catherine Opie, and Alvin Baltrop exposed the predominance of the body and queer sex play among the gay community in the 1970s. I liked seeing the representations of ourselves so openly. We had always been in the picture, but in the post-Stonewall era, unabashedly so.

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Jack Smith, Untitled, c. 1964–1981. © Jack Smith Archive. Courtesy of Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels.

Conceptual representations of queerness are best exemplified in the show by the remarkable number of works by women. Kudos for that. There are so many I’ve never heard of, for no good reason. The abstractions produced by now-well-known lesbian artists like Harmony Hammond, Joan Snyder, Barbara Hammer, Lula Mae Blocton, and Fran Winant, gathered in one gallery, provide alternative thinking about queerness as a visual metaphor. Snyder does an exemplary job of this in Heart On (1975), a sutured, textural abstract painting that had me thinking about how we contain our feelings, blending or contrasting one in relation to the other.

Louise Fishman, Angry Jill, 1973. © Louise Fishman. Courtesy of the artist.

Joan Snyder, Heart On, 1975. Photo by Jack Abraham. Courtesy of the artist and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Harmony Hammond, Duo, 1980. © Harmony Hammond/Licensed by VAGA via ARS, New York. Courtesy of Alexander Gray Associates, New York.

Mary Beth Edelson, Happy Birthday America, 1976. Courtesy the artist and David Lewis, New York.

Louise Fishman, Angry Louise, 1973. © Louise Fishman. Courtesy of the artist.

The figures who created platforms for this work to be visible to the larger public are also lionized. Holly Solomon was a champion for what the queer 1970s had to offer. She was the first art dealer to show Mapplethorpe and embrace Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt with her eponymous gallery. I would get to know Holly personally in the ’80s when I began my own gallery venture with Gracie Mansion. Holly always appreciated our glitzy aesthetic.

Judy Garland appears in the Grey Art Gallery’s iteration of the show, representing the 1980s, in Pride 69–’89 (1989), a video by the collective DIVA TV. There’s a persistent belief that the Stonewall Riot happened because many gay folks were mourning Garland’s death. Here, she is a reminder to never forget what was lost to the generation after Stonewall. Robert Gober’s Untitled Closet (1989) announces what we could expect to discover in the ’80s: An empty closet with the door removed. After coming out in the ’70s, we were now all about being center stage, even as AIDS was killing too many of us.

Our passion for loving was seen as killing us, although it saved us, liberating our desires and solidifying our emotional bonds by the time AIDS arrived.

The queer presence in the East Village became a press magnet. They tagged it “the East Village Scene,” as if there weren’t numerous other scenes at its edges. We were flooded with talented artists and more and more places to present their work. New doors would open in the ’80s when the clubs really got going. They were certainly more familiar social settings than the West Side bars that too often didn’t welcome Black folks. Venues like Club 57, The Pyramid Club, PS 122, 8BC, La MaMa, and the Theater for a New City centered queerness. These were the places I ventured in my neighborhood.

With the introduction of these spaces, queer performance art became even more evident. John Kelly, Karen Finley, Tim Miller, Klaus Nomi, Keith Haring, and David McDermott grew out of a different scene than John Vaccaro, Charles Ludlam’s Theater of the Ridiculous, the Hot Peaches, and the Blacklips Performance Cult—inhabitants of the theatrical world I was introduced to when I first arrived in New York. In the ’80s, drag performers like Ethyl Eichelberger and Penny Arcade crossed over to the burgeoning art world club scene.

Jimmy DeSana, Television, 1978. Courtesy of the Jimmy DeSana Trust and Salon 94, New York.

Greg Day, Stephen Varble at the 12th Annual NY Avant Garde Festival, 1975. Courtesy of the artist.

The ’80s were my biggest swing. I was submerged in art and sexual adventures on the Lower East Side, SoHo, and Tribeca. Jimmy DeSana’s images from this decade always skirted the edge of that culture. I met Jimmy when I was curating photography exhibitions in the late ’70s, soon after he created the pictures from his “Submission” series (1979). The image used to represent him in this exhibition, Television (1978), is Surrealist in nature. DeSana is shown lying on seamless paper, nude save for a leather mask covering his face, as he props up a plugged-in TV with his feet. The photograph alludes to a fetishized sexuality that was a part of our generation’s playtime. The parties would eventually end and turn us into warriors fighting for our lives during the AIDS pandemic.

“What is the sound of ballroom?” asks Dance Tracks 1973–1997 (from the Ballroom Archive & Oral History Project Interviews), a 2010 project presented by Ultra-Red and the Vogue’ology Collective. I never attended the balls or Keith Haring’s parties at the Paradise Garage where Grace Jones performed, but what a brilliant consideration. This work and several others included in the show clearly bring into view the presence of a Black gay cultural movement.

Keith Haring, Safe Sex, 1985. © Keith Haring Foundation.

The Other Countries collective of Black gay male writers are the subjects of Marlon T. Riggs’s film with Essex Hemphill, Affirmations (1990), and Lyle Ashton Harris’s Americas triptych of black-and-white photographs (1987–88) presents the artist and a model posing in whiteface in the tradition of African warriors.

We were not a monolithic group. That Fertile Feeling, a 1980 video featuring Vaginal Creme Davis performing in the artist’s usual over-the-top madness, provides boundary-pushing proof that being queer in all its diversity was happening in art at the same time, even though much of it went unrecognized because of the respectability politics that many of us were pushing against.

Yet the exhibitions offer no picture of what our AIDS life looked like. To my surprise, not one Hugh Steers painting was to be found. Tragic. His was a true artistic expression of what was happening in our world at the time, in our war against a system that compromised AIDS education and promoted fear that stigmatized people living with the disease.

Names Project Foundation, AIDS Memorial Quilt, Block 001, 1987. Courtesy of the NAMES Project Foundation.

Fear put many back in the closet. They wanted us dead, as David Wojnarowicz suggested in his 1990–91 broadside Untitled (One Day this Kid…). Sex clubs and bathhouses shut down. Our passion for loving was seen as killing us, although it saved us, liberating our desires and solidifying our emotional bonds by the time AIDS arrived.

What’s left to say about this is predominantly illustrated by Gran Fury’s political protest posters, which were well publicized in ACT UP demonstrations. Why photographer Lola Flash, a member of ACT UP and the affiliate group Art+, was never recognized for her color reversal photographic prints, astounds me. Many of Flash’s works document political protests and actions in which the artist herself was a participant. She is represented in the show by a single photograph, AIDS Quilt (1987).

Gran Fury, The Government Has Blood On Its Hands, 1988. Courtesy of Avram Finkelstein.

What the artists in both exhibitions have in common, although it’s barely touched on, is that they all lived through the worst of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. They witnessed too many dying or were themselves afflicted. Visual AIDS, a nonprofit New York arts organization formed in the late ’80s, would bring it all together. AIDS decimated and affected the larger part of our queer and non-queer allies. In the ’90s, I was invited to join the Visual AIDS board with my interest in developing the Archive Project. That is when the invisible became visible and I could begin to connect the dots.

The Brooklyn Museum was a different experience entirely. “Nobody Promised You Tomorrow” tells a more inclusive story of the Stonewall Uprising, directly connecting it to the remarkably diverse community of LGBTQ+ artists carrying on the legacy of Stonewall today and into the future. These artists have come into their own within the developing culture of queer studies and gender theory that came to fruition in the 1990s, well after Stonewall.

David Antonio Cruz, thenightbeneathusacrystalofpain, portrait of ms. dee, 2018. Courtesy of the artist.

Mohammed Fayaz, Volume 29: Summer Honey, 2016. Courtesy of the artist.

The artists in the exhibition have an eye toward the past; Hugo Gyrl’s vinyl wall piece from 2019 reads: “THE FIRST PRIDE WAS A RIOT! KNOW YOUR POWER.” Yet other sections of this show create much-needed spaces for imagining and organizing toward more equitable futures and new ways of living. One vital platform centers on how gentrification and violence continue to affect our communities today, while another explores attraction and intimacy.

Some of the works in the Brooklyn Museum show call out the racism that many of us experienced but that is rarely mentioned in gay history. Happy Birthday, Marsha! (2018), a film by Tourmaline and Sasha Wortzel that imagines a day in the life of Marsha P. Johnson, brings us there. Others bring into question the segmentation of what we think of as the gay community—not one but many disparate communities with different needs.

Sasha Wortzel and Tourmaline, Happy Birthday, Marsha! (film still), 2018. Courtesy of the artists.

Urgency (2015) by Linda LaBeija speaks to our responsibility to the trans community. Wortzel’s This is an Address I, II (2019) highlights the growing homeless population, especially among queer and trans youth, and the limits of obtaining social services without an address. Other artists reveal personal, interior views of being in a queer world. Rindon Johnson’s video poem It is April (2017) and Mark Aguhar’s I’d rather be beautiful than male (2011–12) are both tender and touching.

Rindon Johnson, featuring Milo McBride, It is April, 2017. © Rindon Johnson. Courtesy of the artist.

The Brooklyn venue also brings us into the experiences of the marginalized, lost, and forgotten. LJ Roberts’s lightbox installation from 2019 is a memorial to Stormé DeLarverie. According to many eyewitnesses, DeLarverie, a butch lesbian, provoked the tussle with police that triggered the Stonewall Riots. The work calls on us to pay tribute to a figure too often lost in our remembrances.

Some things never change. Mentioned in all of the exhibitions are the George Segal sculptures that rest in the park across from the Stonewall Inn. Many community activists have created controversy around them. As an archivist, I try to make sense of what’s evidenced and question assumptions while considering what can be discovered in attempts to fill in the gaps.

The sculptures, completed in 1979 but not installed in Christopher Park until 1992, comprise bronze casts of two pairs: one standing male couple and a seated female couple. The figures are painted white, a suggestion of the artist’s method of plaster casting by wrapping his subjects in gauze. They are described in the “Art after Stonewall” catalogue and the wall text in “Nobody Promised You Tomorrow” as whitewashing Stonewall’s legacy. This has me scratching my head.

Sculptures by George Segal at Stonewall National Monument in Christopher Park, New York. Photo by Jeffrey Greenberg/UIG via Getty Images.

The ignorance that so many of these protesters proclaim in their “controversy” is disingenuous. The figures, who appear covered in bandages, show no implication of race. As I see it, these “bandages” are quite a fitting representation of the damage done to our community, our existence, and survival through the AIDS pandemic. To misrepresent these sculptures as disparaging to people of color seems ridiculous. People of color were so instrumental in the history of the Stonewall Uprising but many have never recognized how badly we’ve been treated by the very community we’re expected to embrace. Redressing that by protesting and implicating the sculptures as a sign of our further erasure seems like a ploy to alleviate guilt.

Adam Rolston, I Am Out Therefore I Am, 1989. © Adam Rolston. Courtesy of the artist.

Let’s be honest here about the extent of our progress. The celebrated sculptor Louise Nevelson had originally accepted the commission before it was offered to Segal, but according to the “Art after Stonewall” catalogue, her “‘business advisors’ persuaded her that public affirmation of her lesbianism would hurt the career of her younger lover, also an artist, so she pulled out.” That’s the way the art world was then. Would the advice Nevelson’s advisors gave her be tolerated in the art world today? Is that a rhetorical question? Maybe.

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2001/2002 TV Awards

*2001/2002* Best Drama Series: Alias Law & Order: Special Victims Unit The Shield Six Feet Under The West Wing HONORABLE MENTION: Boston Public, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ER, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, 24 Best Actor - Drama Series: Michael Chiklis, The Shield - "Pilot" Vincent D'Onofrio, Law & Order: Criminal Intent - "One" Michael C. Hall, Six Feet Under - "A Private Life" Peter Krause, Six Feet Under - "The Last Time" Martin Sheen, The West Wing - "Posse Comitatus" Kiefer Sutherland, 24 - "11:00 P.M. - 12:00 A.M." HONORABLE MENTION: Anthony Edwards, ER; Chi McBride, Boston Public; Christopher Meloni, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; Hal Sparks, Queer as Folk Best Actress - Drama Series: Frances Conroy, Six Feet Under - "The Last Time" Jennifer Garner, Alias - "Truth Be Told" Sarah Michelle Gellar, Buffy the Vampire Slayer - "Once More, with Feeling" Rachel Griffiths, Six Feet Under - "The Secret" Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - "Wrath" Allison Janney, The West Wing - "The Women of Qumar" HONORABLE MENTION: Amy Brenneman, Judging Amy; Kathryn Erbe, Law & Order: Criminal Intent Best Supporting Actor - Drama Series: Victor Garber, Alias - "The Confession" & "Almost Thirty Years" Jay Karnes, The Shield - "Cherrypoppers" & "Dragonchasers" Freddy Rodriguez, Six Feet Under - "Familia" & "The Trip" Richard Schiff, The West Wing - "The Two Bartlets" & "Night Five" John Spencer, The West Wing - "Barlet for America" & "We Killed Yamamoto" Bradley Whitford, The West Wing - "Isaac and Ishmael" & "H. Con-172" HONORABLE MENTION: Michael Badalucco, The Practice; Fyvush Finkel, Boston Public; Dennis Haysbert, 24; Anthony Heald, Boston Public; Ice-T, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; Benito Martinez, The Shield; Ron Rifkin, Alias; Courteney B. Vance, Law & Order: Criminal Intent; Michael Vartan, Alias; Noah Wyle, ER Best Supporting Actress - Drama Series: Lauren Ambrose, Six Feet Under - "The Plan" & "The Secret" Loretta Devine, Boston Public - "Chapter Twenty-Five" & "Chapter Thirty-Nine" Alyson Hannigan, Buffy the Vampire Slayer - "Villains" & "Two to Go"/"Grave" Stephanie March, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - "Guilt" & "Competence" Janel Moloney, The West Wing - "War Crimes" & "Dead Irish Writers" CCH Pounder, The Shield - "Throwaway" & "Two Days of Blood" HONORABLE MENTION: Emma Caulfield, Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Stockard Channing, The West Wing; Sarah Clarke, 24; Tyne Daly, Judging Amy; Sharon Gless, Queer as Folk; Leslie Hope, 24; Laura Innes, ER; Penny Johnson Jerald, 24; Alex Kingston, ER; Camryn Manheim, The Practice; Maura Tierney, ER Best Writing - Drama Series: Alias - "Truth Be Told" - J.J. Abrams Buffy the Vampire Slayer - "Once More, with Feeling" - Joss Whedon ER - "On the Beach" - John Wells The Shield - "Pilot" - Shawn Ryan Six Feet Under - "A Private Life" - Kate Robin The West Wing - "Bartlet for America" - Aaron Sorkin HONORABLE MENTION: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - "Two to Go"/"Grave"; ER - "The Letter"; Law & Order: Criminal Intent - "Badge"; Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - "Guilt"; The Shield - "Circles"; Six Feet Under - "The Last Time"; Six Feet Under - "Life's Too Short"; 24 - "11:00 P.M. - 12:00 A.M."; The West Wing - "Hartfield's Landing"; The West Wing - "Posse Comitatus"; The West Wing - "The Women of Qumar" Best Directing - Drama Series: Alias - "Truth Be Told" - J.J. Abrams Buffy the Vampire Slayer - "Once More, with Feeling" - Joss Whedon The Shield - "Pilot" - Clark Johnson Six Feet Under - "The Last Time" - Alan Ball 24 - "11:00 P.M. - 12:00 A.M." - Stephen Hopkins The West Wing - "Posse Comitatus" - Alex Graves HONORABLE MENTION: Alias - "Almost Thirty Years"; Buffy the Vampire Slayer - "Two to Go"/"Grave"; ER - "On the Beach"; Law & Order: Criminal Intent - "One"; Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - "Denial"; The Shield - "Blowback"; The Shield - "Circles"; The Shield - "Pay in Pain"; Six Feet Under - "I'll Take You"; Six Feet Under - "A Private Life"; 24 - "7:00 A.M. - 8:00 A.M."; The West Wing - "Barlet for America"; The West Wing - "Hartfield's Landing"; The West Wing - "Night Five" Best Guest Actor - Drama Series: Hinton Battle, Buffy the Vampire Slayer - "Once More, with Feeling" Reed Diamond, The Shield - "Pilot" Charles S. Dutton, The Practice - "Killing Time" Giancarlo Esposito, The Practice - "Pro Se" Mark Harmon, The West Wing - "Posse Comitatus" Bruce McGill, The Practice - "Judge Knot" HONORABLE MENTION: Michael Emerson, Law & Order: Criminal Intent; John Benjamin Hickey, Law & Order; Dennis Hopper, 24; Leslie Jordan, Boston Public; John Larroquette, The Practice; Tim Matheson, The West Wing; Michael Pitt, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; John Ritter, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; Ron Silver, The Practice; Jake Weber, Law & Order: Criminal Intent Best Guest Actress - Drama Series: Patricia Clarkson, Six Feet Under - "In Place of Anger" Viola Davis, Law & Order: Criminal Intent - "Badge" Judith Light, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - "Competence" Mary-Louise Parker, The West Wing - "The Women of Qumar" Martha Plimpton, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - "Denial" J. Smith-Cameron, Law & Order: Criminal Intent - "Poison" HONORABLE MENTION: Khandi Alexander, ER; Cara Buono, Law & Order: Criminal Intent; Ileana Douglas, Six Feet Under; Dee Freeman, The Shield; Amy Irving, Alias; Molly Parker, Six Feet Under; Anna Deavere Smith, The West Wing; Brooke Smith, Law & Order: Criminal Intent; Lili Taylor, Six Feet Under; Patricia Wettig, Alias Best Ensemble - Drama Series: Alias Boston Public Queer as Folk The Shield Six Feet Under The West Wing HONORABLE MENTION: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ER, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Practice, 24 Best New Drama Series: Alias Law & Order: Criminal Intent The Shield Six Feet Under 24 Best Comedy Series: Everybody Loves Raymond Friends Gilmore Girls Scrubs Sex and the City HONORABLE MENTION: The Bernie Mac Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Malcolm in the Middle, Undeclared, Will & Grace Best Actor - Comedy Series: Jay Baruchel, Undeclared - "Prototype" Zach Braff, Scrubs - "My First Day" Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm - "The Doll" Matt LeBlanc, Friends - "The One Where Joey Dates Rachel" Bernie Mac, The Bernie Mac Show - "Sweet Home Chicago, Parts 1 & 2" Ray Romano, Everybody Loves Raymond - "The Breakup Tape" HONORABLE MENTION: Kelsey Grammer, Frasier; Denis Leary, The Job; Eric McCormack, Will & Grace; David Schwimmer, Friends Best Actress - Comedy Series: Jennifer Aniston, Friends - "The One Where Rachel Has a Baby, Parts 1 & 2" Lauren Graham, Gilmore Girls - "There's the Rub" Patricia Heaton, Everybody Loves Raymond - "A Vote for Debra" Jane Kaczmarek, Malcolm in the Middle - "Book Club" Debra Messing, Will & Grace - "Bed, Bath and Beyond" Sarah Jessica Parker, Sex and the City - "The Good Fight" HONORABLE MENTION: Alexis Bledel, Gilmore Girls; Calista Flockhart, Ally McBeal; Lisa Kudrow, Friends Best Supporting Actor - Comedy Series: John Corbett, Sex and the City - "Just Say Yes" & "The Good Fight" Bryan Cranston, Malcolm in the Middle - "Charity" & "Poker" Brad Garrett, Everybody Loves Raymond - "Raybert" & "Lucky Suit" Sean Hayes, Will & Grace - "A Chorus Lie" & "A Buncha White Chicks Sittin' Around Talkin'" Edward Herrmann, Gilmore Girls - "Richard in Stars Hallow" & "Help Me" John C. McGinley, Scrubs - "My Hero" & "My Last Day" HONORABLE MENTION: Peter Boyle, Everybody Loves Raymond; Donald Faison, Scrubs; Charlie Hunnam, Undeclared; Peter MacNicol, Ally McBeal; John Ortiz, The Job; David Hyde Pierce, Frasier; Jerry Stiller, The King of Queens Best Supporting Actress - Comedy Series: Kelly Bishop, Gilmore Girls - "Presenting Lorelai Gilmore" & "There's the Rub" Kim Cattrall, Sex and the City - "Sex and the Country" & "I Heart NY" Sarah Chalke, Scrubs - "My Bed Banter & Beyond" & "My Sacrificial Clam" Kristin Davis, Sex and the City - "All That Glitters" & "A Vogue Idea" Cynthia Nixon, Sex and the City - "My Motherboard, Myself" & "Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda" Doris Roberts, Everybody Loves Raymond - "Marie's Sculpture" & "Lucky Suit" HONORABLE MENTION: Diane Farr, The Job; Cheryl Hines, Curb Your Enthusiasm; Wendie Malick, Just Shoot Me; Megan Mullally, Will & Grace; Judy Reyes, Scrubs; Liza Weil, Gilmore Girls; Camille Winbush, The Bernie Mac Show Best Writing - Comedy Series: Everybody Loves Raymond - "The Angry Family" - Philip Rosenthal Everybody Loves Raymond - "Lucky Suit" - Tucker Cawley Friends - "The One with the Rumor" - Shana Goldberg-Meehan Gilmore Girls - "There's the Rub" - Sheila R. Lawrence Sex and the City - "Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda" - Jenny Bicks Sex and the City - "The Good Fight" - Michael Patrick King HONORABLE MENTION: The Bernie Mac Show - "Sweet Home Chicago, Parts 1 & 2"; Everybody Loves Raymond - "The Breakup Tape"; Everybody Loves Raymond - "Marie's Sculpture"; Friends - "The One with the Videotape"; Gilmore Girls - "I Can't Get Started"; Gilmore Girls - "Presenting Lorelai Gilmore"; Scrubs - "My First Day"; Scrubs - "My Old Lady"; Sex and the City - "Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda"; Sex and the City - "I Heart NY"; Sex and the City - "Just Say Yes"; Undeclared - "Truth or Dare"; Will & Grace - "Bed, Bath and Beyond"; Will & Grace - "A Chorus Lie" Best Directing - Comedy Series: Curb Your Enthusiasm - "The Doll" - Robert B. Weide Gilmore Girls - "There's the Rub" - Amy Sherman-Palladino Scrubs - "My First Day" - Adam Bernstein Scrubs - "My Old Lady" - Marc Buckland Sex and the City - "The Good Fight" - Charles McDougall Will & Grace - "Bed, Bath and Beyond" - James Burrows HONORABLE MENTION: Curb Your Enthusiasm - "The Acupuncturist"; Curb Your Enthusiasm - "The Baptism"; Everybody Loves Raymond - "The Breakup Tape"; Everybody Loves Raymond - "Lucky Suit"; Friends - "The One Where Rachel Has a Baby"; Friends - "The One with the Rumor"; Gilmore Girls - "I Can't Get Started"; Gilmore Girls - "Like Mother, Like Daughter"; Scrubs - "My Last Day"; Sex and the City - "I Heart NY"; Sex and the City - "Just Say Yes"; Sex and the City - "The Real Me"; Undeclared - "Hell Week" Best Guest Actor - Comedy Series: Matt Damon, Will & Grace - "A Chorus Lie" Michael Douglas, Will & Grace - "Fagel Attraction" Brendan Fraser, Scrubs - "My Occurrence" Brad Pitt, Friends - "The One with the Rumor" Jason Segel, Undeclared - "Eric Visits" David Sutcliffe, Gilmore Girls - "I Can't Get Started" HONORABLE MENTION: Jason Alexander, Curb Your Enthusiasm; Geoffrey Arend, Undeclared; Bobby Cannavale, Ally McBeal; Brian Cox, Frasier; Anthony LaPaglia, Frasier; Matthew Perry, Ally McBeal; Stephen Root, Just Shoot Me Best Guest Actress - Comedy Series: Irma P. Hall, The Bernie Mac Show - "Sweet Home Chicago, Parts 1 & 2" Kathryn Joosen, Scrubs - "My Old Lady" Cloris Leachman, Malcolm in the Middle - "Christmas" Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Curb Your Enthusiasm - "The Massage" Christa Miller, Scrubs - "My Last Day" Frances Sternhagen, Sex and the City - "Sex and the Country" HONORABLE MENTION: Sonia Braga, Sex and the City; Blythe Danner, Will & Grace; Susie Essman, Curb Your Enthusiasm; Allison Janney, Frasier; Lucy Liu, Ally McBeal; Millicent Martin, Frasier; Amy Poehler, Undeclared; Nicole Sullivan, The King of Queens; Marlo Thomas, Friends Best Ensemble - Comedy Series: Everybody Loves Raymond Friends Gilmore Girls Scrubs Sex and the City Undeclared HONORABLE MENTION: Ally McBeal, The Bernie Mac Show, Frasier, The Job, Just Shoot Me, Malcolm in the Middle, Will & Grace Best New Comedy Series: The Bernie Mac Show Scrubs Undeclared HONORABLE MENTION: Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Reba Best TV Movie/Miniseries: Band of Brothers The Gathering Storm The Laramie Project Path to War We Were the Mulvaneys HONORABLE MENTION: Daria: Is It College Yet?, Dinner with Friends, The Matthew Shepard Story, Things Behind the Sun Best Actor - TV Movie/Miniseries: Albert Finney, The Gathering Storm James Franco, James Dean Michael Gambon, Path to War Damian Lewis, Band of Brothers Ron Livingston, Band of Brothers HONORABLE MENTION: Beau Bridges, We Were the Mulvaneys; Ryan Gosling, The Believer; Jeremy Irons, Last Call; Shane Meier, The Matthew Shepard Story Best Actress - TV Movie/Miniseries: Angela Bassett, The Rosa Parks Story Tammy Blanchard, We Were the Mulvaneys Stockard Channing, The Matthew Shepard Story Blythe Danner, We Were the Mulvaneys Vanessa Redgrave, The Gathering Storm HONORABLE MENTION: Neve Campbell, Last Call; Kim Dickens, Things Behind the Sun; Tracy Grandstaff, Daria: Is It College Yet? Best Supporting Actor - TV Movie/Miniseries: Alec Baldwin, Path to War Terry Kinney, The Laramie Project Matthew Settle, Band of Brothers Shane Taylor, Band of Brothers Donnie Wahlberg, Band of Brothers HONORABLE MENTION: Kirk Acevedo, Band of Brothers; Don Cheadle, Things Behind the Sun; Peter Youngblood Hills, Band of Brothers; Ross McCall, Band of Brothers; Neal McDonough, Band of Brothers; Linus Roache, The Gathering Storm; Donald Sutherland, Path to War; Sam Waterston, The Matthew Shepard Story Best Supporting Actress - TV Movie/Miniseries: Toni Collette, Dinner with Friends Felicity Huffman, Path to War Lucie Jeanne, Band of Brothers Amy Madigan, The Laramie Project Sissy Spacek, Last Call HONORABLE MENTION: Lena Headey, The Gathering Storm; Wendy Hoopes, Daria: Is It College Yet?; Laura Linney, The Laramie Project; Andie MacDowell, Dinner with Friends; Frances Sternhagen, The Laramie Project Best Variety Program: America: A Tribute to Heroes John Leguizamo's Sexaholix....A Love Story The 2001 MTV Video Music Awards Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert Whose Line Is It Anyway? HONORABLE MENTION: Britney Spears: Live From Las Vegas, Fosse (Great Performances), Madonna: Drowned World Tour 2001, Saturday Night Live Best Male Performer - Variety Program: George Hearn, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert John Leguizamo, John Leguizamo's Sexaholix...A Love Story Ian McKellen, Saturday Night Live Colin Mochrie, Whose Line Is It Anyway? Ben Vereen, Fosse (Great Performances) HONORABLE MENTION: Wayne Brady, Whose Line Is It Anyway?; Jimmy Fallon, Saturday Night Live; Will Ferrell, Saturday Night Live; John Goodman, Saturday Night Live; Neil Patrick Harris, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert; Ryan Stiles, Whose Line Is It Anyway? Best Female Performer - Variety Program: Ellen DeGeneres, The 53rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards Whoopi Goldberg, The 74th Annual Academy Awards Patti LuPone, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert Madonna, Madonna: Drowned World Tour 2001 Amy Poehler, Saturday Night Live HONORABLE MENTION: Rachel Dratch, Saturday Night Live; Ana Gasteyer, Saturday Night Live; Ann Reinking, Fosse (Great Performances); Britney Spears, Britney Spears: Live From Las Vegas Best Animated Series: Family Guy Futurama King of the Hill South Park HONORABLE MENTION: The Simpsons Best Voice-Over Performance - Animated Series: Pamela Adlon, King of the Hill - "Bobby Goes Nuts" Johnny Hardwick, King of the Hill - "My Own Private Rodeo" Seth MacFarlane, Family Guy - "Road to Europe" Trey Parker, South Park - "Scott Tenorman Must Die" Katey Sagal, Futurama - "Leela's Homeworld" Billy West, Futurama - "Roswell That Ends Well" HONORABLE MENTION: Alex Borstein, Family Guy; Dan Castellaneta, The Simpsons; Kathy Najimy, King of the Hill; Yeardley Smith, The Simpsons; Matt Stone, South Park Best Reality Series: The Amazing Race The Osbournes The Real World Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Seasons Survivor HONORABLE MENTION: Making the Video, Road Rules Breakthrough Male Performance: Jay Baruchel, Undeclared Zach Braff, Scrubs Peter Youngblood Hills, Band of Brothers Ross McCall, Band of Brothers Shane Taylor, Band of Brothers HONORABLE MENTION: Carlos Bernard, 24; Tom Lenk, Buffy the Vampire Slater; Seth Meyers, Saturday Night Live; Jeremy Suarez, The Bernie Mac Show Breakthrough Female Performance: Sarah Clarke, 24 Carla Gallo, Undeclared Amy Poehler, Saturday Night Live Judy Reyes, Scrubs Camille Winbush, The Bernie Mac Show HONORABLE MENTION: Elisha Cuthbert, 24; Dee Dee Davis, The Bernie Mac Show

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Royal Deeside: Scotland’s Victorian Heritage Trail

Janice Hopper follows the Victorian Heritage Trail in Royal Deeside, Scotland, to discover the land that Queen Victoria fell hopelessly in love with

When Queen Victoria wanted somewhere to escape to, it was to Royal Deeside in Aberdeenshire that she headed. Victoria was so enamoured with the raw beauty of the Scottish countryside on her first visit in 1842 that by 1852 she’d secured land and her very own castle. Describing the landscape in her diary, she wrote: “All seemed to breathe freedom and peace”.

After a glorious rebuild, a new castle was completed for Victoria in 1856: Balmoral is still the Scottish holiday home of the Royal Family, where HM The Queen returns every summer. The area is rich in history and heritage, and it’s still possible to follow in the footsteps of Queen Victoria and experience what she referred to as “my dear paradise in the Highlands”.

One port of call worth making is the Royal Deeside Railway at Milton of Crathes, which offers return heritage journeys. Once leading all the way to Ballater, today’s passengers can get a sense of the steam rail journey Victoria would have taken along one mile of restored scenic track – the railways revolutionised travel across Britain, including that of the Royal Family. A Victorian station and railway carriage tearoom complete the picture.

The great outdoors

Sunset over Braemar. Credit: iSTOCK

One of the core attractions of Deeside for Victoria was the scenery, and the freedom it afforded her. Victoria and Albert went on pony treks into the wilds of Scotland, occasionally with just one servant in attendance. The couple also set off on ‘Great Expeditions’, as they called them, with their children, sometimes staying overnight in low-key inns where locals were unaware that they were in the company of royals. It was a true antidote to the family’s bustling London life.

The Linn of Dee, with its photogenic rocky gorge, is a sublime spot where Queen Victoria opened the bridge in 1857 with a celebratory tot of whisky. Other escapes and picnic spots favoured by the monarch include Queen Victoria’s Picnic Cottage at the Linn of Quoich, Alltnaguibhsaich Lodge in Glen Muick, and the Queen’s Shiel ‘Ruigh nan Bhan Righ’ at Glen Gelder. ‘Queen’s View’, just outside the village of Tarland, is considered one of Victoria’s favourite viewpoints, taking in vistas of Lochnagar, Morven and Mount Keen. After exhilarating exploits, Victoria and her family returned to the sanctuary of Balmoral Castle. Today, when the Royal Family isn’t in residence, you can visit the magnificent grounds and gardens as well as the Carriage Hall Courtyard and Castle Ballroom. Unfortunately, the rest of the castle is out of bounds.

Displays and films in the courtyard focus on the local wildlife, which includes golden eagles, red deer and mountain hares. The ballroom is home to artworks by Landseer and Carl Haag, as well as silver statues by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm.

The Braemar Gathering

Highland dancers perform at the annual Braemar Gathering. Credit: Andy Buchanan/Getty

As well as serenity and peace, Royal Deeside was a place where Victoria, her friends and family could revel and celebrate. The Highland Games, full of colour, bagpipes, dancing and caber tossing, were popular events, and Victoria attended the lively Braemar Gathering at Braemar Castle from 1848. Today, the world famous-event is held on the first Saturday of September at the Princess Royal and Duke of Fife Memorial Park, just outside the village of Braemar, and HM The Queen attends every year.

In terms of revelry, Deeside was a place for parties and sport. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert held regular balls at Balmoral, such as the famous ‘Ghillies Ball’, which was both raucous and prestigious.

Sporting lodges, including the stunning Mar Lodge near Braemar in Cairngorms National Park, reveal the popularity of hunting during the Victorian era: Prince Albert was a keen and enthusiastic huntsman. Mar Lodge’s Stag Ballroom, festooned with some 2,500 stag antlers, is a breathtaking sight.

Victoria and Albert attended balls at the lodge, piped into the ballroom by torchlight, and later it became the home of their granddaughter, Princess Louise. Today, Mar Lodge is under the stewardship of the National Trust for Scotland and offers elegant self-catering accommodation.

Anyone for whisky?

Glas-allt Shiel on the shore of Loch Muick on the Balmoral Estate. Credit: Sheila Halsall/Alamy

Queen Victoria was also partial to the local whisky and she was known to have visited the Royal Lochnagar Distillery. Built in 1845, owner John Begg of Aberdeen knew the value of royal regulars, so he wasted no time at all in writing to the Queen’s private secretary inviting Victoria and her family for a tour and tasting. Unexpectedly, Victoria, Albert and their three eldest children arrived the following afternoon and a Royal Warrant was bestowed shortly afterwards.

The queen’s initial visit, which took place on 12 September 1848, is marked annually by a commemorative selection of casks for a limited bottling of Royal Lochnagar Selected Reserve. Fewer than 3,000 bottles are released each year.

But while the Scottish Highlands brought Victoria much joy, it was also a place of retreat when she was mourning her husband.

The land around Balmoral Castle is peppered with evidence of Victoria’s loss. Loch Muick is a handsome example. Here, visitors can follow a circular route around the water’s edge, passing Glas-allt-Shiel. This building is known as the ‘widow’s house’, as it was rebuilt for the queen in 1868, following the death of Prince Albert.

As such, this lodge didn’t overwhelm Victoria with memories of her beloved husband, so it provided a rural retreat in quiet, stunning surroundings. A statue of Prince Albert, wearing a kilt, holding a rifle and with a hunting dog by his side, stands proudly on the Balmoral Estate. Designed by William Theed, it was unveiled on 15 October 1867.

A royal church

Craithie Church. Credit: David Gowans/Alamy

Then, when Victoria’s loyal ghillie, John Brown, passed away, a bronze full-height statue by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm was erected of him on the estate. John Brown’s grave can be found in the quaint Crathie graveyard, and Crathie Kirk is a popular stop on the tourist trail as it’s where the Royal Family goes to worship when at Balmoral.

But perhaps the memorials that reveal the most about the pained queen are the cairns built around Royal Deeside commemorating or celebrating key moments in her life.

Of the many cairns decorating the landscape, the vast stone pyramid erected for Prince Albert in 1862 attracts the most attention. Its inscription reads: “To the beloved memory of Albert the great and good Prince Consort. Erected by his broken hearted widow Victoria R”.

The cairns are set in relatively remote, wild nooks of rural Deeside, proving that Victoria really knew the land. She knew the viewpoints, the hillsides, mountains, glens and valleys, and she considered, rejected and authorised the creation of cairns at locations close to her heart.

Victoria was no armchair-enthusiast; she was out in the changeable Scottish weather, pursuing life. The adventures, expeditions, pipes and drams were a breath of fresh air for a queen in an era renowned for hierarchy and stiff upper lip.

While Victoria is remembered for the loyalty she showed to the men in her life, perhaps her biggest love story of all was with Scotland.

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Absolutely make reservations and tip well. 117 Prime Acre Amerigo Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen Bari Blue Nile Ethiopian Kitchen Blue Honey Bistro (Germantown) Bounty on Broad Cafe 1912 Cafe Society Capital Grille  Capriccio Grill Catherine & Mary’s Celtic Crossing (they’re doing a dinner) Char Cheesecake Corner (for dessert) Chez Philippe Coastal Fish Company  Ecco on Overton Park Erling Jensen Evelyn & Olive Felicia Suzanne’s Flight Folks Folly Grey Canary Interim Itta Bena Jim’s Place Grille (Collierville) Mahogany Memphis Majestic Grille Maximo’s on Broad McEwen’s Mesquite Chop House Moondance Grill (Germantown) Napa Cafe Paulette’s Privé  Raven & Lily (Collierville) Restaurant Iris River Oaks Rizzo’s Ronnie Grisanti’s Sage Restaurant Southern Social (Germantown) Strano by Chef Josh Texas de Brazil Terrace at the River Inn Tsunami   B) See a Show or Concert There are plenty of ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day in Memphis. Here are some Memphis Valentine’s Date Ideas for the weekends of February 7-9 and 14-16, 2020. – Does your Valentine love to laugh? Take them to The Play That Goes Wrong Broadway musical at the Orpheum, in town Feb. 5 – 9. – There might be a few tickets left to see Memphis The Musical at Playhouse on the Square, playing Feb. 6, 7, and 8th.  – Mama Honey, Native Blood, Chinese Dub Connection Embassy, Gloryholes, and more perform at Growlers for the Love Doesn’t Hurt Benefit Concert on Feb. 7. – If your heart and your wallet go on (and on), buy your sweetie tickets to Celine Dion at FedExForum on Monday, Feb. 10. – Are you a millennial or Gen Z human who hates feelings? Welcome to the club. You might be into My Chemical Monday Emo Night at Growlers on Feb. 10. – From our Listen Up guide: “Are you going steady and wanna get your sweetie an early Valentine’s Day gift?” The Beach Boys perform at The Orpheum Theatre on Feb. 11 at 7 p.m. – Here’s a date idea: arrive at Crosstown Concourse in plenty of time for drinks in the Art Bar, then head into the Green Room for the “architect of R&B guitar” Jubu Smith on Wed., Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. – Lafayette’s hosts Robert Randolph and the Family Band on Feb. 13 and The Love Boat’s Valentine’s Day Cruise with a Valentine’s Dinner (get reservations) on Feb. 14.  – Opera Memphis presents a Puccini Double Bill: Suor Angelica & Gianni Schicchi. See the shows at GPAC on Feb. 14 and 15. – Get tickets for An Intimate Evening w/ Will Graves at 1524 Madison event center on Feb. 14. – Ballet Memphis debuts new works at their Winter Mix concerts on Feb. 14 – 16 and 21-23 at their midtown headquarters. – Indecent, at Circuit Playhouse through Feb. 16, is a play based on the true story of a controversial 1923 Broadway show written. With themes of forbidden love, censorship, and the rise of Nazism, it’s a thought-provoking piece. – The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performs at the Orpheum nightly Feb. 14 – 16. – Fresh off her tour with Jack White, garage rocker Olivia Jean performs at Railgarten on the 14th at 7 p.m.  – Minglewood Hall hosts Grammy-nominated R&B artist PJ Morton on Feb. 14 at 8 p.m. – Head to DKDC on Valentine’s Day. Kristi & Misti White perform 8 p.m. – 10 p.m. and “absolute greatest all female, queer, southern rock band of all time”, Thelma & the Sleaze, go on at 10:30 p.m. 21+. – Louise Page, Marcella and her Lovers, and Mama Honey take the stage at the new Black Lodge on February 14th for a Valentine’s Day show. Doors at 8 p.m.; show at 9 p.m. – This Valentine’s Day show is going for the Most Sexual Puns Award, for sure. “Love Sucks…” at hot dog bar Doghouzz features queer country band The Dixie Dicks, as well as drag queen Miss Goldie Dee and the Broke Hearted Boys. Doors at 8 p.m. This is honestly my top pick based on the PG-13 rated FB Event alone. – Dru’s Place hosts the Love is a DRAG show starting at 8 p.m. on Feb. 14. – The Hi-Tone hosts The Kickback (The quarterly tribute to classic hip-hip, R&B, funk) on Feb. 15. C) Something Different: Valentine’s Parties, Unique Dates, Group Outings Looking for some Memphis Valentine’s Day ideas for people who are single? Grab some friends or your BFF and try out some of the group- and single-friendly Memphis Valentine’s Day ideas. – Support the Heart Institute at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital at the Heart to Heart Cocktail Party + Bridge Lighting at Wagner Place on Feb. 7 from 6:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.  – Find super fancy chocolate, drinks, art for sale, and Cousins Main Lobster at the Chocolate and Art party at Phillip Ashley Chocolates on Feb. 7.  – Support ALIVE Rescue Memphis at an upscale Oscars-themed, dog-friendly gala at the Cadre Building on Friday, Feb. 7. The inaugural Night at the Pawscars offers a vegetarian buffet, bar, music, dancing, drag show, silent auction, and more. – Cat’s Ballroom dancing hosts Pre-Valentine’s Day Pop-Up at Wild Nutrition on Saturday morning, Feb. 8 from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. – Here’s a perfect date idea for the homebody in your life—or someone who just needs a break. The 5th Annual No Show Ball benefitting the Forest Spence Fund offers you a dinner for four, delivered to your door on Saturday, Feb. 8. The dinner includes some delicious treats from local restaurants, check it out. – The Kukutana African American Museum hosts keynote speakers Nuri Muhammad and Sister Shahrazad Ali on Feb. 8 for The Power Of Black Love a day of talks, entertainment, and refreshments. – The Church of the River hosts Love and All That Jazz, a unique church service featuring live jazz and readings about love, on the Sunday before Valentine’s Day.  – Cerrito Trivia hosts Romantic Comedy Trivia at the Rec Room and Dan McGuinness in Southaven on Feb. 11. Reserve your team’s spot ahead of time! – Museum After Dark: Silentine’s Day is a twist on the silent disco concept at the Stax Museum on Wednesday, Feb. 12 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Use your headphones to hear tunes from the live DJ or a curated Memphis “love” playlist. Ten dollar entry includes headphones, beverages, light snacks, and dessert. – Memphis Grizzlies games at FedEx Forum. Grizz play the Trail Blazers on Wed. Feb 12. – The Metal Museum knows about your last-minute shopping needs, so they’re hosting Valentine’s Eve in the Museum Store on the 13th. – DJ Styles hosts the Heartbreaker’s Ball Steppin’ Night at Marlowe’s on Thursday, Feb. 13. They’ll have an LED dance floor and drink specials 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. – Valentine’s Day Skate at Mid-South Ice House. Head to Southaven for a little icy fun on Friday, Feb. 14. – The Memphis Botanic Garden hosts Whiskey, Wine, and Chocolates on Feb. 14. The $50 ticket includes a signature cocktail, Phillip Ashley chocolate + drink pairings, hors d’oeuvres, fireside cocktail lounge, and live music by Nick Black. – Primas Bakery and Boutique hosts a Valentine’s Day “Charcuterie and Chocolate” Event on the 14th, with a charcuterie plate for two, chocolate pastries, and complimentary wine for guests 21 and up. – Esplanade Memphis hosts Black Love Live, featuring live music, food, and fully stocked bar on Friday the 14th.  – The Rec Room will host Valentine’s Day Duet Karaoke on Feb. 14. – Soulz Cafe hosts Valentine Night with live music, food and drinks on Feb. 14. – Get your group together and throw on some 90s prom inspired outfits, because Crosstown Brewing hosts a 90s Prom Night on Valentine’s Day. It’s free to get in as long as you’re dressed up. – Make Valentine’s Day chill at Celtic Crossing with food specials, “authentic Irish chocolates and karaoke from 6-10 p.m.” Call the pub to make reservations: 901-274-5151. – Rumba Room hosts a Valentine’s Day Date party with dancing, roses for the first 50 ladies, and more. Check out the packages and reservation info here. – Go ahead, be bitter. The Tin Roof on Beale says it’s OK, as long as you’re in red and black cocktail attire. They’re hosting a Bitter Ball on the 14th with live music, DJs, a photo wall, and VIP table reservations. – Zinnie’s will host something they’re calling “Sad Valentine’s Deep Dish” on Feb. 14 at 9 p.m., with an open mic variety show, art sale, and food specials. – Valentine’s Day Dance Classes at Blue Suede Ballroom. Have two left feet? Bring your special someone and work on your dance moves. Classes on February 14 and 15. Reservations required. – Wild Bill’s juke join hosts a Valentine’s Day Celebration on Friday and Saturday night, the 14th and 15th, with live music, food and drinks specials, and the usual Wild Bill’s shenanigans. – For some V-Day shopping, head to the Memphis Modern Market at Loflin Yard on Saturday, Feb. 15 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.  – Flowers & Chocolate is a beer-and-chocolate pairing at Wiseacre; tickets include a tour and tasting of multiple beer samples with Dinstuhl’s chocolate. Feb. 15, multiple sessions. Limited tickets. – The All In For Animals Charity Poker Tournament at Humane Society is on Saturday the 15th and benefits the animal rescue organization.  – Memphis Made will host Beers for Beasts on Feb. 15 from 5 p.m. – 10 p.m. to benefit Australian Wildlife charities. For a $5 entry, enjoy live music, DJ Eric Ives, and great local beer. – This has absolutely nothing to do with Valentine’s Day, but if something about commercialized love makes you want to see bloodsport, head to Rec Room for the Memphis Armored Fight Club’s Rec Room Rumble on Saturday, Feb. 15 from 8 p.m. – 11 p.m. to see locals fight with real armor, swords, and medieval weaponry in a ring. – Soccer City 901 restaurant and pub will host Romantic Live Music on Saturday, Feb. 15. – Works of Heart, Memphis Child Advocacy Center’s 28th annual Valentines art show and auction at Memphis College of Art is a way to give back and have a great time. Bid on more than 100 heart-themed works by leading regional artists while enjoying complimentary beer, wine, and appetizers. February 15. – Bar DKDC hosts Transmission: Broken Hearts Party 80s dance party on Feb. 15 from 10:30 p.m. – 2 a.m. D) Family-Friendly Valentine’s Ideas – Broad Avenue hosts Sweet Street on Friday, Feb. 7. Get a $5 punch card and visit different shops and restaurants on the street for sweet treat samples. – Firepit Fridays continues on Friday evenings at 4:30 p.m. at the River Garden. While not specifically a Valentine’s event, sitting around campfires, making s’mores, and watching the sun set over the river sounds plenty romantic to me. Feb. 7 and 14. – Muddy’s in midtown will host Valentine’s Day Cookie Decorating Fun! on Feb. 8 and 15. Sign up for your session and decorate butter cookies and enjoy complimentary tea. E) Galentine’s Day – Kendra Scott Saddle Creek will have a Galentine’s Day Shopping party on Feb. 12. – Sign up for the Cupcakes and Crafts: Galentine’s Day Macrame Class at Muddy’s on Thursday, Feb. 13. – Loflin Yard does Galentine’s Day on Thursday the 13th with half-priced wine and cheese boards for ladies, plus karaoke. – Knife Bird in Cooper Young hosts a Galentine’s Day Brunch – ladies-only empowerment social edition – sponsored by 901WEROCK. Expect food, mimosas, and networking with local entrepreneurs.  Submit more events here. Are you a home owner in Memphis, with a broken garage door? Call ASAP garage door today at 901-461-0385 or checkout https://ift.tt/1B5z3Pc

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Calendar of Events for September 3 to 16

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SYHS Back again to University Night – 6:thirty – 8 p.m. – Arrive check out the higher school and what your youngsters will be mastering this year! Go to www.syvuhsd.orgfor additional info.

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Cub Scouts – 6:thirty p.m. at Oak Valley Elementary Multipurpose home – Discover about joining Cub Scouts for youngsters in Kinder through fifth grade, boys and women the two welcome. Electronic mail pack42cachuma@gmail.comfor additional info.

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Absolutely free Nutrition and Diabetic issues Class – eleven a.m. at SYV Cottage Hospital. What is the Keto Eating plan? Call Stacey Bailey directly at 805-694-2351.

Artisan Faire, Grandma’s Attic Sneak Peek- five – seven:thirty p.m. at Atterdag Village of Solvang – Phone 805-688-3263 for additional. Sneak Peak features wine, appetizers and doorway prizes.

Sleeping Natural beauty celebration – seven p.m. at the Elverhoj Museum – To rejoice the functions of legendary artist Eyvind Earle, rejoice his get the job done in the Disney animated motion picture “Sleeping Natural beauty.” There will be exciting things to do, terrific surprises, and master about this former Solvang resident at this function is co-hosted by the Central Coastline Movie Society. Occasion is open and no cost to the community – master additional at www.elverhojmuseum.orgor www.centralcoastfilmsociety.org.

SYHS Football Residence Video game – seven – 9 p.m. – The Pirates engage in Santa Maria Higher University. This game will also spotlight new members of the Wall of Honor.

Gladys Knight – 8 p.m. at the Chumash Casino – See this legendary singer at the Chumash Casino! Tickets array from $forty nine – $79, check out www.chumashcasino.comfor additional.

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Artisan Truthful and Treasures with Flair – 9 a.m. – two p.m. at Atterdag Village of Solvang – Arrive get terrific dwelling decor items, gardening, antiques and additional at this exciting function! Situated at 636 Atterdag Highway in Solvang. Phone 805-688-3263 for additional info.

Live performance for Hope – 6 – 10 p.m. at Presqu’ile Vineyard – Area region musician Dylan Ortega will be special visitor at this fundraiser to gain Marian Medical’s Mission Hope.

Rock for Horses – 6 p.m. at Pleased Ending Sanctuary – 1326 Dove Meadow Rd Solvang – There will be live tunes by LiveWire, barbecue meal and silent auction. Tickets are $75, call 805-448-7138 for additional info.

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Get a Ride Back again in Time – Help the Solvang Senior Middle Trot in direction of a new dwelling with a breakfast journey to the historic Alisal Adobe, delight in cowboy poetry and tracks, with a live auction. Limited area for horseback riders and hay wagon. Phone Ellen Albertoni at 805-688-3793 or www.solvangseniorcenter.orgfor additional.

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Absolutely free Nutrition and Diabetic issues Education and learning – eleven a.m. – 12 p.m. at SYV Cottage Hospital – Carbohydrate counting for Diabetic issues – Contact Stacey Bailey directly at 805-694-2351.

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SYHS Board Conference – 4 p.m. – The consistently scheduled conferences are held in Board Area, Administration Workplace, Santa Ynez Valley Union Higher University, 2975 East Freeway 246  

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Espresso with a Cop – 8:thirty a.m. at Espresso House by Chomp – These situations offer the community an possibility to fulfill the deputies and communicate about concerns that impact them separately or the Valley as a entire, around a cup of coffee.

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Absolutely free Nutrition and Diabetic issues Education and learning – eleven a.m. – 12 p.m. at SYV Cottage Hospital – Fat and Oils: Points and Fiction – Contact Stacey Bailey directly at 805-694-2351.

Summer months Live performance Series at Firestone Vineyard – 6 – 9 p.m. – Grab your blanket and picnic basket – it is time for the Summer months Live performance Series! Sign up for us for wine, sunshine, and tunes in the course of the summer season. Admission is no cost and no RSVP required.

Luis Fonsi – 8 p.m. at the Chumash Casino – Award profitable Latin pop star usually takes the stage at the Chumash Casino – Tickets array from $79 – $119, check out www.chumashcasino.com.

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Wine Place Rodeo – 12:thirty – five p.m. at Jacobsen Dairy Equine Middle – Occasion is the two Sept. fourteen – fifteen. Skilled riders at this new rodeo right in this article in the Santa Ynez Valley mixed with BBQ, chilly beer and wine tasting. Go to www.winecountryrodeo.comfor aspects.

Boots and Bling – five – 10 p.m. at Alisal River Grill – This function supports SAM: Solvang University Arts & Audio Foundation – Tickets are $eighty five, check out www.tickettailor.com/situations/asasolvang/294430/r/facebook?fbclid=IwAR0lymX943fjyo1NtjtJji3nRMo9KqKqccUz3BCt7tmq2C1kLcnBLI9-WoE.

Cowboy Ball – five – 10 p.m. at Pleased N Ranch in Buellton – This function supports the SYV Therapeutic Using Software at the Santa Ynez Valley Equestrian Middle – For tickets check out www.syvtherapeuticriding.org.

Absolutely free Motion picture “Jurassic World” – seven:thirty – 10 p.m. at the SYV Marriott in Buellton.

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CASA Splash – one – three p.m. at the Chumash Casino Pool Deck –

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Absolutely free Nutrition and Diabetic issues Education and learning – eleven a.m. – 12 p.m. at SYV Cottage Hospital – Conquering Diabetic issues Difficulties – Contact Stacey Bailey directly at 805-694-2351. Boy Scouts Troop 41 – seven p.m. at SYV Presbyterian Church – Troop for boys from eleven – seventeen several years of age. Opening assembly Sept. 16, then just about every Monday of the month- Go to www.santaynezvalleyscouting@gmail.com

    Boy Scouts Troop 42 – seven p.m. at Jonata Center University – Troop for boys from eleven – seventeen several years of age. Opening assembly Sept. 16 meets just about every 1st and 3rd Monday of the month- Go to www.santaynezvalleyscouting@gmail.com

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Mondays

Yoga, 9 a.m. Arthritis Work out Class, 10:fifteen a.m. Arts and Crafts just about every 3rd Monday Solvang Senior Middle, 1745 Mission Push 805-688-3793.

Preschool Storytime – eleven a.m. – Buellton Library – Carry your preschooler to tale time to help get them completely ready to study!

Divorce Care Recovery Seminar and Help Group – 6:thirty-8:thirty p.m. Santa Ynez Valley Christian Academy Library, 891 N. Refugio Highway, Santa Ynez Louise Kolbert at 805-688-5171.

  Tuesdays

Personal computer class, 9 a.m., Knitting, 9:thirty a.m. Tai Chi, eleven a.m. bridge and poker, 12:forty five p.m. Mah Jongg one p.m., Solvang Senior Middle, 1745 Mission Push 805-688-3793.

Preschool Tale Time – 10:thirty a.m. at Solvang Library. Carry your preschooler to tale time to help get them completely ready to study!

Two-Stage Dance Classes – 6:thirty p.m. 8 p.m. – Marketplace Night and Karaoke Get together. Maverick Saloon, 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez. Go to www.themavsaloon.com.

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SYV We Help the Troops – 9 a.m.-noon. Volunteers pack treatment deals on the fourth Wednesday of just about every month. Bethania Lutheran Church, 603 Atterdag Highway, Solvang. 805-245-4951.

Art Class, 9 a.m. Ebook Club, 10 a.m. (call 1st) Bingo, one p.m.: Solvang Senior Middle, 1745 Mission Push 805-688-3793.

Wiggly Storytime – 10:thirty a.m. – Solvang Library – Limited tales, tracks, rhymes and things to do for infants, toddlers and preschoolers.

Knit and Crochet – one p.m., Buellton Senior Middle, West Freeway 246, Buellton 805-688-4571.

Therapeutic Hearts Help Group – two-4 p.m. Santa Ynez Valley Presbyterian Church, 1825 Alamo Pintado Highway. Absolutely free. To R.S.V.P. call 805-693-0244.

Solvang Farmers Market – two:thirty-6:thirty p.m., 1st Street amongst Mission Push and Copenhagen Push, Solvang.

Crafternoons – three:forty five-five:forty five p.m. Arts Outreach, 2948 Nojoqui Ave. Suite 9, Los Olivos. $10/kid 805-688-9533.

  Thursdays

Sideways Inn Local’s Night Specials – five p.m.- 8 p.m., 114 East Freeway 246, Buellton 805-691-8088.

Chair Physical exercises – 10 a.m., Buellton Senior Middle, West Freeway 246, Buellton 805-688-4571.

Arthritis Work out Class, 10:fifteen a.m. Mah Jongg, Midday Primary Cartooning, one p.m., Solvang Senior Middle, 1745 Mission Push 805-688-3793.

Studying with Canine – three:thirty – 4:thirty p.m. at Solvang Library – Tail Waggin Tutors help younger audience practice reading through competencies.

Mind Harm Survivors of Santa Ynez Valley – Midday-two p.m., Bethania Lutheran Church, 603 Atterdag Highway, Solvang. Jodi House Mind Harm Help Middle presents a support team for brain harm survivors and caregivers www.jodihouse.org.

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Nutrition Classes – eleven a.m. – SYV Cottage Hospital Meeting Area – Instruction Stacey Bailey is a dietician and presents weekly classes in various subjects. For additional facts call 805-694-2351. Carry your lunch and communicate nutrition.

Tai Chi, 9:fifteen a.m. Mah Jongg, 10 a.m. Pilates – 10:fifteen a.m. Ukulele eleven:fifteen a.m., Solvang Senior Middle, 1745 Mission Push 805-688-3793.

Bingo – one p.m., Buellton Senior Middle, West Freeway 246, Buellton 805-688-4571.

  Saturdays

Cachuma Lake Character Wander – 10-eleven:thirty a.m. 805-688-4515 or www.sbparks.org.

Junior Rangers Software – 12:thirty-one:thirty p.m. Neal Taylor Character Middle, 2265 Freeway 154. Little ones three and up less than 10 several years have to be accompanied by an grownup. $three/person. Character Middle admission is no cost. Go to www.clnaturecenter.org.

Sundays

Brunch at The Landsby – seven:thirty a.m. – two p.m. – They now acknowledge reservations on Open Desk application for the eating home and Mad & Vin patio beginning at seven.thirty am. For additional info check out www.thelandsby.com.

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Log onto www.cityofsolvang.com, www.buelltonrec.com or www.visitsyv.comto see a total agenda of applications and situations that array from grownup and youth sporting activities to teenager dances, discipline outings, excursions and additional.

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Intro to Speculative Fiction by People of Color adapted from The Fantasy Inn

Classics

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Mythic Fantasy

The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by F.C. Yee

Fire Boy by Sami Shah

Urban Fantasy

The House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard

Cast in Shadow by Michelle Sagara

Bad Blood by L.A. Banks

Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older

Jade City by Fonda Lee

Zero Sum Game by SL Huang

Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge by Paul Kreuger

Paranormal Romance

Bearly a Lady by Cassandra Khaw

Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh

Better off Red by Rebekah Weatherspoon

Erotic Science Fiction

The Stars Change by Mary Anne Mohanraj

Space Opera

Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

Ragamuffin by Tobias S. Buckell

Science Fiction

Mirage by Somaiya Daud

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Want by Cindy Pon

Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany

Science Fantasy

Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

Star Wars: Finn’s Story by Jesse J. Holland

Gemsigns by Stephanie Saulter

Dystopian

Ink by Sabrina Vourvoulias

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline

An Excess Male by Maggie Shen King

Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

Legend by Marie Lu

Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor

Apocalyptic

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson

Orleans by Sherri L. Smith

Killer of Enemies by Joseph Bruchac

Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson

Steampunk

The Sea is Ours edited by Jaymee Goh & Joyce Chng

The Dream of Perpetual Motion by Dexter Palmer

Everfair by Nisi Shawl

Buffalo Soldier by Maurice Broaddus

Zombie Fiction

Zone One by Colson Whitehead

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

Alternate History

Lion’s Blood by Steven Barnes

Wild Seed by Octavia Butler

Historical Fantasy

The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo

Redwood and Wildfire by Andrea Hairston

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Witchmark by C.L. Polk

Mother of the Sea by Zetta Elliot

Fantasy of Manners

Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho

Time Travel

Time Salvager by Wesley Chu

An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim

Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen

Comedic Science Fiction

High Aztech by Ernest Hogan

The Brothers Jetstream: Leviathan by Zig Zag Claybourne

Young Adult

The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf by Ambelin Kwaymulina

An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh

Middle Grade

Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh

The Gauntlet by Karuna Riazi

Love Sugar Magic: A Dash of Trouble by Anna Meriano

Fairy Tale Fantasy

Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi

Huntress by Malinda Lo

Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao

Dark Fantasy

Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez

My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due

Mythology

The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Sword & Sorcery

Imaro by Charles R. Saunders

Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed

Romantic Fantasy

Song of Blood and Stone by L. Penelope

The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi

The Island of Eternal Love by Daína Chaviano

Literary

The Winged Histories by Sofia Samatar

Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James

Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko

The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker

Magical Realism

Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

When Fox is a Thousand by Larissa Lai

Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore

So Far From God by Ana Castillo

Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis

LitRPG

Changing Faces by Sarah Lin

Epic Fantasy

Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri

The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu

The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang

The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

The Tiger’s Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera

The Dragon Songs Saga by JC Kang

The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter

The Wolf of Oren-yaro by K.S. Villoso

Graphic Novels

Storm: Make it Rain by Greg Pak, Victor Ibanez, Scott Hepburn, & Matteo Buffagni

Monstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda

Black by Kwanza Osajyefo, Jamal Igle, Robin Riggs, Tim Smith III, & Sarah Stern

Legend of the Mantamaji by Eric Dean Seaton, David Ellis Dickerson, & Brandon Palas

Webcomic

The Meek by Der-shing Helmer

Audio Drama

The Glass Appeal by Elijah Gabriel | Website

Here Be Dragons by Jordan Cobb | Website

Redwing by JV Hampton-VanSant | Website

Flyest Fables by Morgan Givens | Website

Kalila Stormfire’s Economical Magick Services by Lisette Alvarez | Website

Standalone Novel

Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng

Severance by Ling Ma

She Weeps Each Time You’re Born by Quan Barry

Smoketown by Tenea D. Johnson

The Lost Girl by Sangu Mandanna

Novella

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor Lavalle

The Sorcerer of Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson

Novelette

Hell is the Absence of God by Ted Chiang

Short Story 

Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar | Read for Free Now

A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers by Alyssa Wong | Read for Free Now

The Water That Falls On You From Nowhere by John Chu | Read for Free Now

Anthology

Futureland by Walter Mosley

Dark Matter by Sheree R. Thomas

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Things To Do Today In London: Monday 30 January 2017

Remi Harris is performing at the PizzaExpress Jazz Club in Soho. What we're reading Tim Peake reunites with Soyuz TMA-19M at the Science Museum. Why are there NYC cabs in London? Charterhouse opens to the public — after 400 years. Hamilton West End cast announced. Things to do CIVIL WAR HISTORY: Travel back in time to the days of the English Civil War, with guided walk The Men Who Would Be King: The Civil War in Westminster. Journey through the seven years of war, which became the the biggest battle in English history. Westminster Underground station, exit 4, £12/£9. book ahead, 5pm-7pm VALENTINE CRAFTING: Useless at romance? Put that personal touch on your Valentine's Day card at this crafting evening. Aid the creative process with a cocktail or two. Drink, Shop & Do, free when you buy a drink, just turn up, from 7pm ROMA HOLOCAUST: Louise Doughty's novel, Fires in the Dark, told the story of a group of Roma caught up the in the events of the second world war. Join Doughty for A People Devoured: The Roma Holocaust, a panel discussion of the suffering faced by the Roma community during the second world war. British Library, £10/£7, book ahead, 7pm-8.30pm NEW NATIONALISM: Politics has taken a strange turn in an age of Brexit, Trump and the rise of European populist right. Join Professor Tony Travers of the London School of Economics and two experts on the populist right to find out why there has been a rise in such nationalism. The London School of Economics, free, just turn up, 7pm-8.30pm UKULELE HOOTENANNY: Whether you're a beginner or an expert ukulele player, you're welcome at this ukulele hootenanny. Borrow an instrument or bring your own and take part in renditions of old classics and modern pop songs on the ukulele. Queen of Hoxton. Free (£20 refundable deposit), 7pm-12am MONDAY NIGHT LAUGHS: Get over the Monday blues with Right Funny Comedy #11. Join host Stephen DiPlacito and 12 comedians to laugh your way into the week. Hawkins Forge, Battersea, free, just turn up, 7.30pm-10.30pm See the snowdrops at Chelsea Physic Garden. MUSIC MONDAY: Energise your Monday night with guitarist Remi Harris. Finding fame through sets at Montreux Jazz Festival, BBC Proms and with Jamie Cullum, expect influences of Django Reinhardt, Wes Montgomery and Stan Getz, blended with hip hop, gypsy swing and blues. Pizza Express Jazz Club, Soho, £15, book ahead, doors 7pm, show 8.30pm SNOWDROP DAYS: Chelsea Physic Garden's unique micro-climate means that snowdrops tend to come into bloom earlier here than elsewhere in the country. Follow the Snowdrop Trail through the gardens, seeing over 120 species. Chelsea Physic Garden. £10.50/£6.95, 28 January-3 February, 10am-4pm MOOMINLAND: Head to the Southbank Centre for an interactive adventure in Moominland. We had a whale (or a surreal hippo-like creature) of a time. £13.50-£16.50, book in advance, until 23 April CURIOUS COLLECTIONS: Explore polymath Sir Thomas Browne's unusual approach to the world with his curious collections. The exhibition reveals a compelling and strange perspective of 17th century medicine. Royal College of Physicians, free, just turn up, until 27 July [9am-5pm] Stage review: Art. But is it? Photo: Sarah Kent Yasmin Reza's 1996 three-hander shoves three nice actors as three nice blokes into an 'emperor's new clothes' situation. In this case the 'new clothes' are a very expensive white canvas, which threatens to destroy their friendship. Art is something of an 'emperor's new clothes' play, with opinion split over whether it's worth the money for 90 minutes — its success depends on the comic actors cast each time. With this threesome, there's no need to worry. Poet Tim Key is the surprising standout from Matthew Warchus's pert and pacy Old Vic revival. Art, The Old Vic, The Cut, SE1. From £12, until 18 February ★★★★☆ Johnny Fox Art review: Historical Architecture Image courtesy: John Soane's Museum This small two room exhibition at John Soane's Museum looks at the life of Robert Adam — an architect who designed stately homes all across the UK, including Osterley Park in London. It’s a small and largely archival show but can be coupled with a visit to the fantastic new additions to the museum. Robert Adam’s London at John Soane’s Museum, 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, WC2A 3BP. Free, until 11 March ★★★☆☆ [Tuesday-Saturday] Good cause for the day FOOTBALL MAD: You can sign up for Tackle Africa's London Football Marathon 2017. Play football to support young people affected by HIV in Africa, with this 12-hour fundraising super-tournament. £20, book ahead, 17 June Funzing Fun things to do with our friends and sponsor Funzing. LDN Talks @ Night || Neuroscience of Powerful Habits Every January you do the same thing. You make a New Year's resolution to lose weight, be thriftier, quit smoking or possibly even to start exercising. Yet how many of us find ourselves in the exact spot we started in once the month is up? This talk by Dr Gabija Toleikyte, explains why the brain resists changing habits of a lifetime. She'll also explain how to create long lasting change, by working with your brain rather than against it. Get tickets London Talks @ Night || The Science of Psychedelics Scientific research is resuming on how psychedelics affect the weirder aspects of human consciousness. This talk from Dr David Luke engages in current study into pyschedelics and their historical use in shamanic rituals. Be prepared, you might leave with more questions than answers. Get tickets LDN Talks @ Night||Body Language of Love & Attraction What does it mean when someone flicks their hair or crosses their legs while they’re talking to you? Dr Peter Collett analyses the role of body language in relation to dating. £10 Get tickets

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Już jutro głosowanie na Malcie dotyczące równości małżeństw

Już jutro Malta katolicki kraj może przejść do historii mogą uchwalić równość małżeństw. Trochę historii.

Prezydentka Malty Marie Louise Coleiro Preca zapowiedziała, że ponieważ równość obywateli/ek wobec prawa jest na szczycie listy priorytetów nowego rządu (wybory odbyły się na Malcie kilka tygodni temu).

Malta, najbardziej katolicki kraj w Europie, jest od 3 lat na 1, miejscu państw europejskich z najlepszym prawodawstwem dotyczącym LGBT (listę sporządza rokrocznie ILGA-Europe) Jest jedynym krajem w Europie, który ustawowo zakazał "leczenia" homoseksualizmu. Związki partnerskie są tam legalne od 2015 r. i przewidują takie same prawa jak dla par hetero (łącznie z adopcją dzieci) - tylko nazwa jest inna - i to się właśnie teraz ma zmienić. Bo jak równość, to równość. (Replika)

Malta przez zaledwie trzech lat, zrobiła duży krok w równości dla LGBT, nie tylko związki partnerskie uchwalenie inne ustawy LGBT. Rząd Josepha Muscata uchwalił ustawę podstawowe prawa dla osób transseksualnych i interseksualnych, to też pierwszy kraj gdzie akceptują prawa osób interseksualnych. Nawet nie którzy Biskupi z Malty opublikowali dokument dotyczący stosowania Amoris Laetitia, o rodzinie od papieża Franciszka. Dokument Episkopatu odzwierciedla wezwanie papieża, aby uzyskać więcej miłości i integracji w Kościele, dla rozwiedziony i też LGBT. (New Ways Ministry)

Biskup Grech szukał większej integracji dla osób LGBT w kościele podczas synodu rodziny w 2014 roku, a Biskup Scicluna chce żeby nie karać, duchowny którzy akceptują i błogosławią związki osób jednopłciowy. Scicluna powiedział Kościół powinien przeprosić osób LGBT, za język homofobiczny. Tylko w ubiegłym roku, Scicluna stał się jednym z niewielu biskupów na Malce który potępiał "terapie reparatywną". Wielu rodzice do praktykujący katolicy walczyli o równe prawa dla swoi dzieci. Nawet dzięki im jeden biskup katolicki przeprosił społeczność LGBT za prześladowania na żywo w telewizji, jest nim Biskup Malty Charles Scicluna.

Takie ceremonie ślubne gdzie są związki partnerskie odbywają się w katolickiej Malcie i legalnie, mam nadzieje nadejdzie czas w Polsce na takie śluby, tylko nie kiedy będziemy mieć po 70 lat wcześniej. Chcemy mieć takie same zmartwienia, radości w małżeństwie jak mają hetero. Nie kiedy na starość, ale też pamiętajmy wielu nie będzie mogli wziąć ślub np Jerzy Waldorf z swoim partnerem Mietkiem. Osoby homoseksualne, mimo przeżytych razem lat, nie mają żadnych wynikających z tego uprawnień. Bał się, że kiedy go zabraknie, Mieczysław Jankowski zostanie pozbawiony wszystkiego. Musieli prawo tak żeby Mietek nie musiał płacić podatek od spadek. W tej sytuacji zapisał w akcie notarialnym nie można traktować jako spadek na rzecz Mieczysława Jankowskiego, lecz jako częściową tylko spłatę długu, z tytułu jego należności za pracę w moim domu przez tak długi czas. Na co zwracam uwagę władz podatkowych – podsumował wyliczenia. Waldorff prosił wykonawców testamentu, by wyjednali u władz Kurii Warszawskiej zgodę na pochowanie go na Powązkach. „Niechaj też wraz ze mną spocznie Mieczysław Jankowski” – napisał. (Tygodnik Polityka)

Relacja po głosowaniu uchwaleniu związków partnerskich, 37 za ustawą, 0 przeciwko i 30 wytrzymało się.

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Dining out in Regency England: The Belle Sauvage

By Lauren Gilbert

La Belle Sauvage Inn, Ludgate Hill, London

My husband and I went out to dinner this evening and really enjoyed it. Dining out is usually a pleasure, and it is something people have been doing for generations. Lists of places to eat were published in guide books and The Epicure's Almanack which was published in 1815. Dolly's Chop House and Lloyd's Coffee House were well known names. I ran across one named La Belle Sauvage Tavern (also known as the Bell Savage Tavern), located on Ludgate Hill, with a long and fascinating history. As you will see, La Belle Sauvage was much more than a place to eat. There is a record of a forged claim by William Lawton for 20 shillings against William Savage in the area, which resulted in Mr. Lawton being sentenced to an hour in the pillory and establishes the name of Savage as that of a citizen there. During the reign of Henry VI, in 1453, a clause roll (or close roll-administrative records created by the royal chancery) refers to the bequest of Savage's Inn, which would indicate the existence of an inn as early as the 15th century. The inn also seems to have been known at some point as the Bell in the Hoop. The inn was a coaching inn at this point. There is an indication that in 1554 Sir Thomas Wyatt came to the Bell Savage in Ludgate for his rebellion, stopped to rest, couldn't get into the city (which ended his rebellion), and rested at the inn until he could turn himself in at Temple Bar. In 1568, John Craythorne gave the right to possess the property to the Cutler's Company (knife makers' guild). By 1584, the inn was known as the Belle Sauvage. Plays were staged in the yard of certain inns during this period, and were staged at the Belle Sauvage, including a performance of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and (possibly) some of Shakespeare's plays; there is an indication that Love's Labours Lost was performed there. In 1616, John Rolfe and Pocahontas stayed at the Belle Sauvage during their visit from America. (Subsequently, there was a theory that the inn was named for her, but that was not correct as it was known as the Belle Sauvage or Bell Savage long before her arrival.) The original inn burned down in the Great Fire of London, but it was rebuilt. In 1703, the Belle Sauvage was mentioned in a newspaper article in relation to damage to the building resulting from a severe windstorm.

La Belle Sauvage Inn and Yard

The Belle Sauvage became one of the famous coaching inns. In 1674, with 40 rooms and facilities for 100 horses, it was quite an enterprise. By the Regency era, it had stabling for approximately 400 horses and was known for sending coaches all over the country. (The Belle Sauvage was one of two inns on the London to Bath route-by 1667, a stage left at 5:00 am every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and travellers were told they would complete the 105 mile trip in three days if all went well.) Routes expanded and coaches from the Belle Sauvage went to Colchester, Ely, Holyhead, Shrewsbury, Warwick and Windsor, to name a few. The hostlers would have changed horses (a fresh team harnessed to a coach to replace an exhausted team) while passengers hopefully had time to dine (dinners had to be timed for a coach's arrival), some stayed the night, possibly to be ready for an early departure, and so forth. It was one of the main inns for mail coaches and stage coaches coming into and leaving London. Its proximity to the Fleet Prison also brought a clientele for meals. (Prisoners had to pay for food and beverages. Lucky prisoners had family or friends willing to bring them meals or the means to pay a jailor to bring food; the Belle Sauvage was handy for such custom. Local businessmen and others with business in the area also dined there.) What amenities might have been enjoyed at La Belle Sauvage? In general, coaching inns offered breakfast, dinner, supper, and liquid refreshment. According to The Picture of London, for 1803: Being A Correct Guide to All the Curiosities, Amusements, Exhibitions, Public Establishments, and Remarkable Objects, In and Near London, The Belle Sauvage had a good coffee room (dining room), newspapers, and access to coaches to and from many regions of England. The guide book indicates it was popular with travellers. The Epicure's Almanack; or Calendar of Good Living, published in 1815, includes the Belle Sauvage in its list of places to dine in the Fleet Market area. Commended for a "well stocked larder"(1), The Epicure's Almanack indicates that the Belle Sauvage was not only popular with travellers but others as well. It does not provide a description of meals serviced or specialties, but apparently the Belle Sauvage was not one of the inns known for meals served badly prepared or timed so that travellers could not enjoy them. There are also literary references to the Belle Sauvage (or Bell Savage). Sir Walter Scott named "the famous Bell-Savage" (2) in Kenilworth in Chapter 13, the inn where Wyland and Tressilian stayed. Kenilworth was first published January 28, 1821 and is set in 1575. Another literary reference was established when Charles Dickens alluded to the Belle Sauvage in The Pickwick Papers. The novel is set in the years1827-1831 and was originally published in installments between March 1836-November 1837. It features a character named Tony Weller (father of Sam Weller) who was a coachman whose coach arrived in and departed from London at La Belle Sauvage. It was also linked with the magazine Punch (founded in 1841). The men who produced the magazine met weekly over dinner to discuss and debate various subjects, and the Belle Sauvage was supposedly the site of such a dinner, possibly the first (I was unable to find an exact date). Trains had been on the horizon since the late 18th century and steam engines a subject of study and experimentation in the early 19th century. Development continued, and in 1830, the Liverpool to Manchester route opened. The 1840's saw a huge growth in the railroad systems (by 1844, over 2000 miles of line had been established) and, as the routes expanded, the need for coaching service diminished. Railroad travel was faster and provided more efficient service for the mail. As the coaching routes were no longer needed, coaching inns no longer drew customers. The railroad era finally put an end to La Belle Sauvage and, in 1873, it was torn down to allow for construction of a railway viaduct.

Footnotes: (1) The Epicure's Almanack: Eating and Drinking in Regency London, ed. Janet Ing Freeman, pp. 77-78. (2) Scott, Sir Walter. Kenilworth. P. 171. Sources include: Feltham, John. The Picture of London, For 1803: Being A Correct Guide to All the Curiosities, Amusements, Exhibitions, Public Establishments, and remarkable Objects, in and Near London. 1802: R. Phillips, London). A Nabu Public Domain Reprint. Rylance, Ralph. The Epicure's Almanack: Eating and Drinking in Regency London The Original 1815 Guidebook, edited by Janet Ing Freeman. 2013: British Library, London. Scott, Sir Walter. Kenilworth. A. L. Burt Co, New York. (Publishing date is not shown; appears to have been published about 1926)

Elizabethan Era. "Bell Savage Inn" by L. K. Alchin. HERE thestreetnames.com "Pocahontas and her London Street Name Connection," Elizabeth Steynor, 1/13/2017, HERE; "La Belle Sauvage Yard, Pocahontas and a dancing horse," Elizabeth Steynor, 5/18/2015 HERE; "London's Coffee Connections," Elizabeth Steynor, 9/29/2014 HERE AnInkyTale.co.uk. "Proprietors of Punch Magazine" Jane E. Chadwick, September 26, 2016 HERE. British Heritage Online. "Travel Through Time at England's Coaching Inns" by Sean McLachlan, July 1, 2009. HERE British History Online. Walter Thornbury, 'Ludgate Hill', in Old and New London: Volume 1 (London, 1878), pp. 220-233 HERE. English Historical Fiction Authors. "Coaching Inns in Early 19th Century England" by Julie Klassen, December 12, 2016. HERE; "Lloyds--Lifeblood of British Commerce and Starbucks of Its Day" by Linda Collison, July 30, 2012. HERE Google Books. 1607: Jamestown and The New World. Compiled by Dennis Montgomery. 2007: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, VA, in association with Rowman & Littlefield, New York. P. 140. HERE; Holland, J. G. Scribner's Monthly, An Illustrated Magazine for the People. Vol. XXII. (May, 1881 to Oct. 1881, inclusive). "In and Out of London with Dickens." P. 39. 1881: The Century Company, New York HERE; Spielman, Marion Harry. The History of Punch 1895: Cassell and Company, Ltd., London. HERE London Online. "La Belle Sauvage." (No author or post date shown.) HERE The Word Wenches. "Travelling the Roads of Regency England with Louise Allen!" March 4, 2015. HERE Parliament.UK. "Railways in Early 19th Century Britain." (No author or post date shown.) HERE Wicked William. "Principal Departures for London Coaches (1819)" by Greg Roberts, April 28, 2016 HERE Pictures: Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain) HERE and HERE. Lauren Gilbert, author of Heyerwood, A Novel, lives in Florida with her husband. She is a long-time member of JASNA, and is also a member of the Florida Writer's Association. Her next novel, A Rational Attachment, is due out soon. Visit her website for more information HERE.

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